cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60005391
Top Virginia Democrats have decided against exercising a controversial procedural end run around last week’s state Supreme Court ruling that struck down their redistricting, which wiped away a gain of four House seats, the Democratic leader of the state Senate told The New Republic.
The decision—which nixes a complicated idea, discussed over the weekend by Democrats, to replace the state Supreme Court and get the case reheard—is likely to anger rank-and-file Democrats who had hoped the party would respond aggressively to the ruling, which has made it more likely that Republicans hold the House this fall.
The decision also contrasts sharply with moves undertaken by many GOP state legislatures in the South, who are aggressively gerrymandering their states with wild abandon to erase decades-old majority-majority seats from existence, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key Voting Rights Act protection against racial gerrymanders.
Okay, hol’ up. My head is spinning over this. We’re talking about Democrats who WON, who ARE IN OFFICE, refusing to act on the will of the voters…
…and it’s because they’re throwing a tantrum about not getting ENOUGH votes? That’s the only thing that I can parse out of blaming the non-voters here. Like, “Oh, we’d love to do something for you, but your fellow citizens were little shits who stayed home on election day. Sorry.”