Democrats Melt Down Over Virginia Supreme Court Ruling, with Socialist Democrat Influencer Hasan Piker Demanding Violent Revolution and the "Smart" Commentators of the Left Unable to Read a Simple Court Decision

The left is spamming out wholly ignorant objections to the ruling.

A major one is: But other states passed new maps! Why can't Virginia pass a new map?!?!

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Republicans: Pass new maps in Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas ALL without a vote -- upheld

Democrats: Pass new maps in Virginia with a vote from the will of the people -- overturned

Make it make sense.

By the way: When they say "Without a vote," they mean without a public vote on a referendum.

Do you know why there was no public vote on a referendum in those states?

That's right, because those other states didn't require a constitutional change to pass the new map, so there was no referendum.

Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke

Okay. I'll "make it make sense." Virginia has a constitution that applies in Virginia but not in those other states, and the government of Virginia did not follow that constitution, which is illegal.

To be more specific: States like Virginia wanted to Virtue Signal that they were anti-gerrymandering (which they're not, they just wanted to lock in the current gerrymander they approved of) so they passed a constitutional amendment limiting gerrymandering.

Then, just to show the left believes in nothing they claim to believe, they attempted to undo that amendment through a rushed and unconstitutional process.

The other states always left this power in the hands of the legislature, so the legislature is able to change the maps with a vote.

It's not so hard to understand is it? Aren't you the guys always claiming that you're the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM)? Are you entirely incapable of reading anything but BlueSky for your "research"?

Another stupid objection they keep on making: If this process was deficient from the very beginning -- which the Court ruled it was -- why didn't the Court make this ruling earlier?

This is a hilarious one. The Virginia Supreme Court was going to rule on whether this process was adequate or defective -- but the Democrats pushing the new map insisted that it was illegal for the Court to rule on the referendum before the referendum had been voted on and was entirely concluded.

The Democrats themselves insisted that the Court had no power to rule on this except after the referendum was voted on and was in the process of being implemented.

The Court read the Democrats' arguments and... agreed.

Here's another Smartest Kid in the Class (TM) Sam Stein babbling that this wasn't "handled" correctly. What he means is, if this was f***ed up, why didn't you stop us earlier?

Another one: The very, very smart (just ask him!) Dweeb Goblin Will Saletan:

Will Saletan @saletan

Can someone explain why--if this was the court's basis for nullifying the redistricting measure--the court didn't rule this way when the challenge arose before the referendum?

It looks like the court waited to see which side would win, and then intervened.

With an ugly mug like that, you'd think he would know how to read.

There's a very easy way to find the answer to that question: RTFO. Read the fucking opinion, Retard Who Is a Genius.

By the way, do you want to know why the Democrats argued the Virginia Supreme Court should not rule on the process until later? For the same reason all litigants make such arguments: Because they knew the Court would probably find the process was defective.

What they were hoping was: If the process went forward, it would create its own political momentum, and then the Supreme Court would be too afraid to rule when the referendum has passed and would allow the defective process to stand.

But they weren't (thankfully!).

This is a stupid argument anyway -- whether the process was ruled unconstitutional six months ago or now, it doesn't matter. It would have been ruled unconstitutional then, or now. There was nothing the Democrats could do, because what they were trying to do was forbidden -- the Virginia Constitution demands a schedule for amendments that requires time for cooler heads to prevail, and the Democrats were trying to rush this process and ignore the built-in scheduling requirements.

So whether the Court ruled earlier or later -- the Democrats just were not permitted to rush the amendment.

And speaking of that rushed effort: the timing requirements were that a referendum be passed in one legislative period, and then an intervening general election be held, and then the vote be held after that general election. This is to make sure the public has the chance to vote out the rascals if they don't like the amendment they're trying to force through.

But the Democrats passed the referendum while voting was taking place for the next general election. In other words, there was no intervening election between the passing of the referendum in the assembly and the vote by the people, because the election was already happening when the assembly passed it.

And voting was already happening because Democrats created a clownlishly long campaign season instead of an election day.

Greg Price @greg_price11

In the end, Virginia's ridiculously long early voting period is what sunk the Virginia referendum.

Amending the VA Constitution requires two votes in the General Assembly with an intervening election in between.

The first vote in the redistricting referendum was 40 days into early voting in 2025, when over 1.3M people had voted.

Hilariously, the key argument made by the lawyers in favor of the referendum was that only Election Day counts as the election.

The Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) -- just ask them, they'll tell you they're the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) -- keep asking the same questions and people keep posting the same link to the same publicly-published court opinion.

And the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) continue refusing to read a fairly straightforward opinion, not super-cluttered with legalese.

They don't read, because the Smartest Kids in the Class (TM) are above reading. They just know through Diverse Lived Experiences.

They're treating this opinion like it's The Hound of the Baskervilles or something. I mean, come on. It's not that hard.

Meanwhile, the violent communist and terrorist cheerleader that the Democrats all insist is a moderate mainstream voice calls for violence.

AGAIN.

hasanabi
@hasanthehun

the va supreme court denied the results of the redistricting referendum. scotus gutted the voting rights act and tennessee carved up the last dem district destroying black voter power in the state.

those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable

Related: You know Steve Cohen, the very African American Congressman from Tennessee's 9th District who shows you he's African American by eating KFC in Congress?

And yes this is real:

Well, the Republican who will probably replace him is... get this... a black woman.

And the left insists: It's racist anyway, I don't care if a black candidate replaces the white one.

From runner:

Caroline Wren @CarolineWren MAXIMUM REDISTRICTING WARFARE UPDATE

DONE:
🔵 CA +5
🔵 UT +1
🔵 VA +0
🔴 TX +5
🔴 FL +4
🔴 OH +2
🔴 NC +1
🔴 MO +1
🔴 TN +1
Total: 🔵+6 / 🔴+14 = net 🔴 gain +8

PENDING:
🔴 LA +1 or +2
🔴 AL +1 or +2
🔴 SC +0 or +1
🔴 MS +0 or +1
Remaining 🔴 Available Pickups: +2-6

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:20 PM

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