"One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW"

"oh God fuckin dammit"

4:59 PM · May 8, 2026

"aight I had more to say about this"

Virginia Supreme Court: To Protect Democracy, We Must Stop Voters From Participating In It

The Virginia Supreme Court redistricting decision could cost Democrats four seats in the House in the 2026 midterm elections.

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"I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority."

"Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever"

"Gerrymandering for me but not for thee, the Republican way.

If the courts and voting cannot achieve redress, populations pushed to despair turn to violence.

Wish they'd read history, not the white mythology Praeger and Wallbuilders feed them."

"the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game."

"Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA."

"they refuse to support nationwide fair districting, not because it would confer any partisan advantage at this point, but because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation. it's not a means to an end, it is the end in and of itself."

"the maximalist calculus right after a blue wave midterm simply doesn't work out for republicans but they're doing it anyway.

they're playing w/fire doing this right before democrats take control of a bunch of swing states, and the impact on house control will be relatively low; but republicans have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation, so of course it must happen immediately."

This is how democracy dies.

"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"

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https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf

"In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect.

The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion."

if enough US citizens wrote/emailed/phoned/screamed
outside their office to our congressional reps to IMPEACH
or face voter outrage ending their career, and kept it up, we could regain our #democracy

Just a moment...

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then Spread the word for those as well

"Supreme Court said 'go ahead and do racist gerrymanders' and Tennessee was ready to go.

Democracy doesn't die in darkness - we watch it crumble in broad daylight."

"there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it.

that's not ultraleft or fringe to say anymore. we can have a livable country or we can have a country with the Republican Party in it. everyone knows this now, from the most edgy leftist poster to a mainstream liberal. the opposition party can either offer that clearly and loudly, or they can lose."

"Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such."

"Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow."

"Scott MacFarlane on the FBI raid of Sen. Lucas’s home and office:

'There are going to be questions raised about how Fox News was there as the raid was undertaken. That type of thing is rare.' "

https://youtu.be/o7qtSj3i7wM

"Trump has turned the FBI against Louise Lucas.

I have 0 doubt that this is political revenge for winning the VA gerrymander fight and rubbing it in their faces."

New FBI raid on Dem was brought on by fired Trump official to help with midterms: MS NOW

Federal agents have raided the office of a Virginia Democratic legislator who was instrumental to her party possibly picking up four additional congressional seats.The FBI served multiple search warrants at the office of state Sen. L. Louise Lucas in Portsmouth as part of what sources described as a...

Raw Story (www.rawstory.com)

"they are stealing power in our country from the people and will enslave us if we let them succeed"