Dems scheme to ‘repair’ their Virginia gerrymander – Latest News
As evening follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instantaneous court-packing transfer to undo it.
To lefties driving right now’s Democratic Party, it’s not “democracy” except it’s hard-wired to allow them to run roughshod — and when their power-grab schemes run afoul of the rule of law, their solely reply is a contemporary scheme.
Specifically, progs need to ram via a law immediately dropping the retirement age for the Virginia court docket to 54, which might enable the legislature to change enough justices to restore the gerrymander.
Spanberger’s already caved to the left in pushing an outrage she’d promised to oppose; will she discover the backbone to say no now?
Wiser minds would call off the insanity — however then again wiser minds would’ve averted this mess within the first place.
As The California Post has famous, Democrats may’ve deserted the redistricting wars after Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Golden State gerrymander evened the tab for the Texas one — however as a substitute (with Newsom main the charge) they demanded Virginia Dems go large.
Spanberger, who’d campaigned towards a post-victory gerrymander, complied — and different Republican states responded in sort, with Florida alone probably making up for what Dems stood to gain in Virginia.
With the Virginia map tossed, Republicans may wind up netting 14 House seats from the redistricting wars.
Mind you, that won’t save the GOP majority: The “old” map nonetheless offers Dems an glorious probability to choose up two or three seats in Virginia — and even the Texas gerrymander that began the entire thing may blow up in Republicans’ face if Hispanics within the Lone Star State revert to their pre-2024 voting patterns.
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On the opposite hand, the outrageous attempt to steal seats could effectively drive Virginia moderates into Republican fingers come November: Dems burned $62 million to barely move the referendum that allowed the gerrymander.
That’s money they’ll’t spend on winnable races throughout the nation, however quite than study their lesson, progressives solely need to additional stomp on the rule of law by packing the Virginia court docket.
Nationwide, even average Dems at the moment are speaking about seizing their subsequent out there probability to pack the US Supreme Court, grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico merely to gain them 4 secure Senate seats and abolish the Senate filibuster — and so lock in progressive energy endlessly.
Anyone paying consideration ought to understand these lunatics need to be stored out of energy till the celebration comes to its senses.
