Lawmakers file motion asking state supreme court to pause its ruling against the redistricting referendum.
After the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, Democratic lawmakers in the commonwealth notified the court they intend to appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Friday’s ruling by the state supreme court delivered another major setback to the party’s nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.
Democrats, led by House Speaker Don Scott and Attorney General Jay Jones, filed a motion late Friday afternoon asking the state supreme court to pause its ruling from taking effect while they appeal for an emergency hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court.
They’re not reporting this, but there are protests fucking everywhere this foul redistricting is happening. In South Carolina, twenty-three people lined up to speak against this – and ZERO for it. And in Tennessee, Justin Pearson burnt a Confederate flag in the Tennessee State Capitol while others were in the streets. Every legislator involved in this is acting against the will of their constituents.
Media is not here to serve up actual news, much less to tell us the truth: it is billionaire propaganda there to feed us lies about our countrymen and neighbors, and to discourage any thought of lifting a finger that might make this harder for them. Which is probably why they’re not full of articles talking about Reconstruction and Jim Crow and how we’ve already been through this, because their purpose is not to show us as we are, but to hide our own national truth.
And our national truth is that NO ONE WANTS THIS except a handful of the privileged and whoever is still eating the propaganda, which might end up being all they have to eat if they win.
Turns out there’s a reason progressives are winning by double-digit spreads in these recent special elections, and it has nothing to do with Israel: people like the idea of single payer healthcare, of not going to or paying for expensive foreign wars, people really like the Voting Rights Act as it was written, people really just fucking like democracy. And what all of this current open power grabbing is accomplishing, beyond destroying what we value, is motivating the masses: at the very least, a LOT more people are paying attention now. That’s far more than could be said even two years ago.
Look, I don’t want to blow sunshine up your ass, this is bleak. But chaos is the kitchen of change and NO ONE WANTS THIS. The way I see it, this is the cancer and rot coming to the surface once again in American history: we deal with it now, or we lose our country. But with the people even in the reddest of red states showing up to say no unilaterally, with one voice, I at least know I am not alone.
I am in a similar health situation as yourself, with similar choices to make about destination, but I suspect that like me your battles have made you solid: you know where your victories can still be had and you turn you attention to those, even as the possibility of smaller wins inexorably narrows with time and health. I read your comments here and I know you care about your neighbors and your country, you think things through and you have strong values. And if you didn’t very deeply give a shit, none of this would be affecting you like it is right now. In my opinion, among others who post here you are, in a phrase, the best of us. I deeply respect your struggles, and the life-and-death stakes you face daily, because I face them myself. It is for this reason I want you around to see what happens next, because I am still of the opinion that the deep, profound anger and betrayal that is even now simmering in what used to be the maga base will yet explode.
I write this knowing that someone will be along soon to shit on it, because you know, hope bad, but even so, I believed it needed to be said, and I wish you well. May your Sunday be better than your Saturday was.