Dems Win Naked Power Grab In Virginia, Could Lose In Court On Constitutional Grounds |
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Dems Win Naked Power Grab In Virginia, Could Lose In Court On Constitutional Grounds
While the left’s naked power grab may be hypocritical, partisan map-making is not the problem — legally speaking.
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Democrats and their well-heeled funders have won their rigged referendum to rig Virginia’s congressional maps, but the political boundary battle isn’t over yet.
Now come the court challenges, and that’s where the redistricting revisionists could lose their big win thanks to their unabashed manipulation of Virginia law.
“It’s illegal actually for a number of reasons,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, told me last week, a few days before Tuesday’s election, on The Dan O’Donnell Show in Milwaukee.
Snead asserts that Virginia Democrats, who hold the commonwealth’s political trifecta, have steamrolled the process while abandoning their plastic principles. His election watchdog organization is involved in one of several lawsuits challenging the maps and the referendum that gave Democrats the shaky imprimatur to implement them.
Hypocrisy on the Ballot
Following a lengthy early-balloting period, Virginia voters on Tuesday approved the most expensive ballot issue in the commonwealth’s history.
The fairly narrow “yes” victory changes the Virginia constitution, nixing a previous amendment that established an independent commission charged with drawing the 10-year political maps. The change gives the Democrat-controlled legislature the authority to put in place its drunkenly partisan congressional maps redrawn mid-decade to grab more House seats in November’s midterms.
If the rewrite stands, Virginia Democrats could add four House seats for a 10-1 advantage in the state’s........