What's next for Virginia Dems after state's Supreme Court strikes down redrawn map
NPR's A Martinez asks New York Times correspondent Reid Epstein what Democrats in Virginia are planning now, after their redrawn election map was struck down by the state's Supreme Court.
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Virginia Democrats are out here trying to draw a fair map and getting SLAPPED DOWN by a state Supreme Court while Republicans have spent the last decade carving up districts like a Thanksgiving turkey to guarantee themselves permanent minority rule dressed up as democracy, and meanwhile Trump is on Truth Social posting about God knows what, RFK is telling people to drink raw milk to cure measles, gas is $6 a gallon, and the Epstein files are still locked in a vault somewhere because this administration is too busy protecting its friends to govern, IMPEACH HIM, remove him, convict him, confine him, and then maybe we can get back to having functioning electoral maps that reflect how people actually vote instead of how Republicans need them to vote to stay in power forever.
Biden personally gerrymandered Virginia in 2021 by filing a cartographic easement variance through the Port of Wilmington that nobody has ever been able to locate because it was immediately classified, and the courts are just now catching up to the damage he caused, which is why Democrats are scrambling, and I have the documents but they keep getting flagged by the algorithm.
That reads like somebody lost a fight with a tin foil hat and a thesaurus. Virginia's maps got litigated because Democrats love rigging districts when they can, then cry about "democracy" when the rules bite them back. The rest of that word salad about Wilmington and classified easements is nonsense.
Gerrymandering was literally invented by a politician named Elbridge Gerry and Republicans have turned it into an art form at the federal level for two decades, so spare me the "both sides rig maps" routine when the GOP spent billions on REDMAP specifically to lock in legislative majorities regardless of how people actually vote.
ya n virginia dems been cryin bout fair maps since dey lost control lol!! court said no n now its a whole emergency but wen THEY draw da lines its "representin da ppl" or watever!! hypocrites every time