GwensBackOnHerBS
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https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5823911/supreme-court-virginia-redistricting
May 16, 2026 1:48 AM
GwensBackOnHerBS
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https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5823911/supreme-court-virginia-redistricting
nnjd4zqrrq31415
Fucked up!
afterdarkart
Virginia. You. Are. Not. Obligated. To. Listen. Put the map in play. Who will STOP YOU.
TonnerreCadien
But the red states where the legislatures came up with new maps? That's okay, because Republicans. The SCOTUS is a fucking disgrace.
bikergeek6249
"Gerrymandering is only cool when Republicans do it."
dealinwifscum
The fascist and illegally nominated scotus must be dismantled and reconstituted with a completely democratic court
walnutbreath
Every FedSoc judge needs to be RICO'd for bribery, deprivation of rights under the color of law, conspiracy against rights, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
darkchiron
Just do it anyway. What are they gonna do about it? Fuck 'em.
Dracology
Well if it was a red state they would just go "nothing we can do about it, use the results" but its a blue state so they will instead say that every person elected under those maps are invalid and somehow figure out how it means all those seats go to Republicans or something somehow.
Zamiel77
Fine, let them. Dems have to start calling some bluffs/forcing hands. Otherwise, any peaceful chance at change is well and truly gone.
DontSayRepeat
So, that would mean all the red states' congressional maps are illegal too, right? Because that's the precedent.
Holinyx05
Thanks Bernie Bros for going to sleep during the 2016 election because you didn't get your way
kevbot5000
Bernie primary voters voted for Hillary at a higher rate than Hillary primary voters voted for Obama in '08.
Holinyx05
nah they went to war with the DNC. They either didn't vote at all or they cast a FU to the DNC in a vote for Trump. No one saw it coming, which is why the polls were "wrong"
kevbot5000
What I wrote above isn't my opinion. About 12% of Sanders voters voted for Trump. ~5% voted for 3rd party candidates. 25% of Hillary primary voters voted for McCain. (It's possible the studies showing these numbers are wrong, but it's our best current understanding on the electoral swings in recent elections) While that Sanders swing is bigger than Clinton's margin of defeat in key states, primary voter defections are a known phenomenon so if no one saw it coming everyone is dumb.
Thisisbullshitalready
They are rigging the midterms in plain sight. I f***ing hate them.
BluePaladin42
Oh look, the thing people were worried would happen, happened, even after all the armchair lawyers insisted it couldn’t and we were worrying too much.
SomeGeek75ygh
SAY IT WITH ME: IF YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO OUR BALLOTS THEN HEAR OUR BULLETS.
TiredBanana
American political news in a nutshell: "The pedo nazis made a law that voting for not them is illegal and you will be shot for trying. Democrats are convinced America will vote out the pedo nazis because of the new democrat platform of doong nothing about anything.
micicle
Its all just political theatre orchestrated by three billionaires in a trench coat at this point.
hexephant
Gas is expensive when it's time to burn things... probably not a coincidence
duffman3335
Democrat governor, you say?
ParaBellumOutfitters
Agent Spangenberger, busy taking guns away from a populace that looks like they'll need them sooner rather than later
SecretAgentSuperBooger
JustUsLeagueUnlimited
Onve again, I would like to point out to all the people that said "trump and Hillary are the same" we would not have this issue if Hillary Clinton was elected in 2016
makesense
Death knell until after this election. Then they can implement them again.
tentaclefriendly
The Supreme Court and several state Supreme Courts have delegitimized themselves through their clearly partisan and capricious rulings.
It's time for various state governors to tell them to fuck off
Yes this would be a constitutional crisis.
Hardly the first.
walnutbreath
We've been in a constitutional crisis for decades now.
RyanH42
Ignore them and use the map anyway. Grow some balls, Democrats, for fuck's sake...
walnutbreath
The death knell was the Democrats immediately annoucing their intention to roll over and die after the state Supreme Court made its partisan ruling. Democrats' refusal to ever fight fascists on their own terms is complicity, full stop.
Zamiel77
Democrats have an opportunity here to actually stand up for themselves and defy the courts. Republicans do this all the time and get away it. Time to play hard ball or go home.
beaubrent
So SCOTUS says it is ok for literally every red state but not a blue one. Ok.
somebackup
Just ignore the supreme court.
SavageDrums
Just fucking ignore them
They are not following the clear wording of the law. They are absolutely illegitimate.
They are nakedly corrupt.
Fuck the SCROTUS. They have made their ruling, now let them enforce it.
grandestgrandeur
Why should we have to listen to them? They're not following the rules, they've shown that their interests lie more with bigots and corporations, so... get rid of them.
CaldariBob
Do it anyways.
The ruling Republicans are defying court rulings left and right. Precedent is set.
Harm
Or vote again. This time: should the State defy this paper ruling and implement the map that was voted the last time?
Iwilldoanythingforfivedollars
To paraphrase a genocidal maniac "the court has made it's ruling, now let it enforce it."
MrBlueSands
President Andrew Jackson. That's why I don't carry twenty-dollar-bills any longer than absolutely necessary.
Recursiv3
These are indeed genocidal maniac times
WaxedApple
They will do nothing because they are not a real opposition party
Svartsinn
They ask you to vote and then do nothing. Then they ask you to vote again. The elected democrats cannot fail they can only be failed by you - the voter who didn't vote hard enough. And when you do *shrugs*
TheRealArclight
LuminoZero
Use the map anyway and tell the Republicans to eat shit.
JustFeedMePieDammit
Why is the federal government weighing in on a state voting thing anyway?
KingKrabvoldIV
They asked them to. Read the news.
Pardonmygarlicfarts
Because it's authoritarian and corrupt
Dhalmelpunch
The state supreme court tossed the results for some bullshit technicality. The appeal went federal as a last ditch effort
JustFeedMePieDammit
Good to know, thanks!
CorvidPrime
It’s some BS. We voted. We made a collective decision as a state. They’re taking that away for no other reason than they know they can’t win unless they cheat.
makesense
Virginia officials had already stated that even if SCOTUS had ruled in their favor, if it hadn't been before May 14th they wouldn't have been able to implement it in time.
YuckFuMaga
More fucking GOP power grab cause they know they cannot win playing by the rules.
Hope the 2nd amendment folks are getting ready …. Oh wait… they are so ignorant they are cheering. Fucking maga dolts
dap6000
The party of state’s rights.
CorvidPrime
So long as it’s a RED state…
notmyrealface
Is anyone from your state picketing these judges' homes, the capital, like, is there any public pushback from the local public, or are they just rolling over?
StarscreamAndHutch
Just use the voted on maps and fuck the scotus decision. Thats exactly what republicans have done in the past.
MikeRInternetTraveler
The Ohio Doctrine
stabbermcshooty
Fires pretty good at cleaning
TheJuiceLoosener
AOC said that this wasn't a legal decision, this was overturning an election. Get used to it, folks.
pandemicmodedad
How about dont get used to it? The people turning against the people that put them in power is not immortal and have names and addresses.
Shadowkrieger
Only option is Luigi the terrorist threats..
decarnatedame
It happened in Missouri with a vote about abortion rights
khora
Florida used the maps declared illegal and that went fine.
wecouldbehappywithoutcapitalism
Yeah, I love how they just went “well have the election and then we will see”. I kind of think it was because it wasn’t by a huge margin but they don’t get to hedge their bets on court rulings with a peak at an election they wanted to see if they could overturn it without getting yelled at too much.
PolitiCat
Voting is dead. You all know what is the logical consequence from this. Revolution.
ExecutiveProducerWolfDyck
That's the reason behind most of what they do.
wherethehorriblethingsare
Something something peaceful revolution impossible something violent revolution inevitable something something
JimmieRustlin
NotAPervert
CorvidPrime
FishieStardust
Arbitrarynamehere
He has changed his position recently
TheSwedishMoose
He's saying someone should?
Arbitrarynamehere
Yep
18booma
Wow, I can't believe you're calling for violence! You leftist extremists are all psychotic Marxists!!! /jk but Fox News and other far-right media really did claim Hasan was calling for violence by saying the quote in this context.
livingonagiantfireball
American are unable of violent revolution
RyanH42
Like you Americans will actually do anything but whine and continue to vote against your own interests...
TiredBanana
Yeah and water gets you wet. Maybe if you tell the baby eating pedo nazis how unfair they're being they will stop and the deranged fascist oligarchy will magically just go away for your convenience. They do this shit because americans endlessly let them.
At this point i don't even blame magats or the billionaires and their shills. I blame the rest of america and their endless compliance.
Rongeong
The problem comes down to peaceful protest by force. There CAN'T be riots because american cops have actual military hardware and no qualms about attacking people. Peaceful protests result in people being held in jail with broken bones with the processing being drug out to make sure they suffer. Rubber bullets, tear gas, and in at least one occasion people being stuck in handcuffs in vans with deafening sounds played all night. There's no "letting", there's only trying not to get killed.
TiredBanana
Yes and they torture, rape and murder people just the same as we speak only difference is they're not afraid to do it. Because they get away with it.
NotAPervert
Black panthers had plenty of peaceful protests. Police don’t get paid enough to risk being buried. They’ll use hand sanitizer before they charge a school shooter.
TanithRosenbaum
So what you're saying is that you're not citizens any more but indentured slaves who are under the threat of torture and execution for non-complicance. Wasn't "freedom or death" a very distinctly american talking point at some point? And doesn't the US have more firearms in civilian hands than actual civilian hands? You guys need to organize and start thinking about at which point you're gonna start saying "no" with a gun in your hand. Because otherwise you're gonna end up in Nazi Germany.
FrozenCoast
Americans are boot licking cowards.
TiredBanana
They are already using violence and escalating at every turn. Americans still live in the pathetic delusion that fascism will just conveniently go away. It won't.
Igut
No, you get that wrong. Because the state is violent, there is no other way than a riot, because you have to be prepared for them using violence. People in more violent socities also choose more violent options. Problem in US is your individualism, no one want to sacrifice themselves for greater good. "Yeh, I want chance but it could cost ME something so naah"
camn333
The way I see it, the SCOTUS just made sure to drive a massive amount of voter turnout for the Democrats in the next election. More people will probably go vote, out of spite.
OperationRustysBlanket
Only if we drag our people to vote, kicking and screaming if we have to
aslum
Sadly it's the SCoVA not SCotUS. Not that they're any less corrupt mind, but it's a different entity being shitty.
Nanoline
No, this was was the SCotUS backing up the SCoVA. SCotUS just saidd SCoVA gets the final say, so the map and vote are dead.
astronomygeek7
Vote anyway. Be sure to research your candidates too so we don’t end up with Dinos like Fetterman. Or have ties to AIPAC.
Nanoline
/2 Case in point - the lone Democrat in Tennessee just *ended his entire election campaign* because they redid the districts such that it would be entirely impossible for him to win re-election and he knows it.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/rep-steve-cohen-ending-campaign-tennessee-after-redraw-133005039
Nanoline
This is kind of the whole problem though - for those who live in the red states redoing the maps, like for example Tennessee, there are now *not enough potential Democrat voters in any district in the ENTIRE STATE to actually attain a Democrat victory unless a HUGE number of Republicans defect*. And they ain't.
I agree that more of us need to vote - but we can't deny the simple fact that the reason these fuckos are doing this is because it eliminates the *possibility* of an opposition victory.
Jerple
When do the riots start?
TiredBanana
Just as soon as americans first make tiktoks about it all and get enough clout
Jerple
or until enough people have no more to lose. Sigh
DoubleOhTwentyEight
I voted yes. But the fact is they didn't follow the rules. I think, sadly, that the Virginia Supreme Court got it right. Every loss is not a political disgrace.
ThisIsAllYouCouldComeUpWith
Where's the same judicial care when Republican measures to kneecap voting get shoved in just before elections
DoubleOhTwentyEight
Where is the same care? I'm my heart and my comments. If you have a problem with an inconstant court, fine. But this day and issue must be judged on the merits.
mardukkur
This isn’t true! They absolutely followed the rules, the court made up some absolute bullshit that because early voting had started it didn’t count as “before the election”. Just a result looking for an excuse.
DoubleOhTwentyEight
You sure about that? You sure it's bullshit? The idea of "before an election" was all about allowing voters to vote between the two events. Many voters didn't get that chance because they had participated in the early voting that I -- and probably you -- support. So do you think it was ok to deny thousands of people the chance to vote IN LIGHT OF the redistricting amendment? Are you sure about that?
mardukkur
Yes of course I'm sure about it, it's black letter law. Couldn't possibly be clearer, couldn't possibly be interpreted any other way.
mardukkur
Also those people you're pretending were denied a chance to vote literally voted directly for (or against) the amendment itself.