Dems scheme to fix their Virginia gerrymander fail is a WORSE outrage
As night follows day, progressives’ response to the Virginia Supreme Court’s tossing of Gov.Abigail Spanberger’s outrageous gerrymander is to demand an instant court-packing move to undo it.To lefties driving today’s Democratic Party, it’s not “democracy” unless it’s hard-wired to let them run roughshod — and when their power-grab schemes run afoul of the rule of law, their only answer is a fresh scheme.Specifically, progs want to ram through a law instantly dropping the retirement age for the Virginia court to 54, which would allow the legislature to replace enough justices to restore the gerrymander.Spanberger’s already caved to the left in pushing an outrage she’d promised to oppose; will she find the spine to say no now?Wiser minds would call off the madness — but then again wiser minds would’ve avoided this mess in the first place.As The California Post has noted, Democrats could’ve abandoned the redistricting wars after Gov.
Gavin Newsom’s Golden State gerrymander evened the tab for the Texas one — but instead (with Newsom leading the charge) they demanded Virginia Dems go big.Spanberger, who’d campaigned against a post-victory gerrymander, complied — and other Republican states responded in kind, with Florida alone likely making up for what Dems stood to gain in Virginia.With the Virginia map tossed, Republicans could wind up netting 14 House seats from the redistricting wars.Mind you, that may not save the GOP majority: The “old” map still gives Dems an excellent chance to pick up two or three seats in Virginia — and even the Texas gerrymander that started the whole thing could blow up in Republicans’ face if Hispanics in the Lone Star State revert to their pre-2024 voting patterns.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.
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