@MiamiPDScanner@EricLDaugh The word "fair" and "temporary" were used. They shouldn't have tried to rip apart a purple state to begin with. And with Florida, Florida has always been RED, so the power grab isn't much at stake when you look at State representation
@26bold@IngrahamAngle Umm. Hate to state the obvious but the NOVA area has already been spreading like the plague further south. Which is why we are turning into a dumpster fire. How about NOVA just joins the DC area instead.
@KosherFranklin@GRickabaugh@ky_statesman You know that is possible to not like something that the president is doing but still support him. It's not supposed to be a all in or nothing kind of system. 🤦♀️
@VA_GOP No one is above the law. Not even Democrat voters. This whole amendment has been staged since October when Democrats decided to do this from the start
@Phrozensolid06@JasonMiyaresVA Well his voice doesn't carry all the way to Texas. It carries in Virginia. That's the only thing that matters is representation within your own state
There's an old saying that says you can't cut corners on the Constitution. Our Virginia Supreme Court is about to find out just how many corners were cut on the recent gerrymandering amendment.
When the Democratic-controlled General Assembly in October 2025 decided to hijack a special session, rewrite its own procedural rules on the fly, and ram through a constitutional amendment mid-election, this was not governance but a naked power grab.
When Virginians were asked to vote on a deliberately manipulated ballot question in April 2026, the power grab was made worse. The Virginia Supreme Court has the authority and a solemn obligation to say as such. The judiciary serves as a check to that power and as the last line of defense when the other branches forget their limits.
Virginians have arrived at that moment.
What the Virginia Constitution requires is explicit. Proposed constitutional amendments must pass through two separate sessions of the General Assembly, with a general election of the House of Delegates occurring between those two votes.
This is no mere bureaucratic formality, but an intentional, deliberate and structural safeguard designed so that major changes to our governing document are considered by legislators answerable to voters who know precisely what is at stake.
As a circuit court judge already found, because the next qualifying House of Delegates election cannot occur until 2027, the process is void from the start. This is no technicality, but a bedrock requirement where amendments to our constitution should be fair, deliberate, transparent and accountable to the people.
Yet the manipulation doesn't end there. Once a proposed constitutional amendment passes the General Assembly the first time, the Virginia Constitution requires the Clerk of the House to transmit the text to every circuit court clerk across the commonwealth to post the amendment publicly for at least 90 days before the next election.
Instead, Virginia Democrats ignored this requirement and admitted as such during the 2026 General Assembly by clumsily attempting a retroactive correction, something that has never occurred before in the 400-year history of the Assembly.
Then there is the ballot language. Virginians were asked whether they wanted to "restore fairness" to elections. That is campaign rhetoric disguised as a ballot question, which tells a voter that opposing the amendment means opposing fairness. Does that strike anyone as neutral or fair?
The contention from Virginia Democrats that the voters have spoken is as manipulative as the ballot language itself. Certain facts remain facts. The Virginia Constitution requires voters to be given an honest and accurate description of what they are being asked to decide. That never happened. The process was unconstitutional, the language was unconstitutional, and from start to finish, Democrats manipulated both the public and the process because they knew they could never win on the merits.
Respect for the voting will of Virginians means more than manipulating the Constitution to produce a desired result. The justices of the Supreme Court of Virginia must rise to the moment and be the check of sanity and balance in the face of political manipulations.
Striking down this manipulated amendment will reinforce to every Virginian that our rules mean something, that the Constitution is not an obstacle, but a commonly shared playbook that binds all of us, regardless of party, to one set of rules. That good government is respected by law and through good process. That in Virginia, our laws are not suggestions to be sidestepped when inconvenient, but the fundamental criterion upon which all we claim to hold dear stands.
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@etoddslaughter@ElaineLuria I second this. My voice in Virginia shouldn't be punished for what another state does. My voice doesn't reach that far. The whole point of these is to have representation within your state, not collect seats like Pokémon cards
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It's not going to deter me." - President Donald J. Trump
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@BNONews There is the influence from the left. Trump was none of those things he labeled Trump with, but he believes them anyway so he has to act on what he believes. There is the damage the media has done.