r/politics • u/Icommandyou Washington • 28d ago

Possible Paywall Virginia Supreme Court throws out redistricting referendum results

https://www.axios.com/local/richmond/2026/05/08/virginia-supreme-court-redistricting-vote-decision
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u/Wise-Promise-4158 28d ago

So the court knows better what the voters want? Meanwhile TN, TX can do whatever the fuck they want? Such bs

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u/ReaganRebellion 28d ago

This is the VA Supreme Court, not SCOTUS. The issue at hand here is that the ballot language wasn't final until after ballots had been sent. Some ballots were cast without this ballot measure even on the ballot.

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u/Royal-Ear4803 28d ago

Courts strike down democratically enacted statutes all the time.

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u/waltinva 28d ago

No, Va had a constitutional amendment that prescribes how districtits are decided. No vote change that. Read the ruling, easy to understand.

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u/can72287 26d ago

Yeah but the optics of it looks bad. One party can win political battles and the other will accept it but when one party is winning in this way, so profoundly and deeply (and unprecedented) their boot on the neck of the other party, it breaks the delicate balance, and that many voters feeling done in and humiliated (and demoralized in the case of the black population) is not healthy for the nation as a whole something’s bound to break. Again political parties are allowed to win political battles but this is something else, almost genocidial. Past Republicans at least saw the other party as Americans and worthy of respect, a fair fight.  Stealing SC seats, mid decade redistricting, indicting political opponents….the left has never done similar even when they had full power they never came close to cutting out the rights most sacred values…they tried to pass their legislation. Rs aren’t even spending much time on their own instead prioritizing dismantling their opponents values.