In a recent decision, the Virginia Supreme Court invalidated a voter-approved referendum that aimed to redraw congressional district maps, siding with Republicans on a technicality and undermining the principle of popular sovereignty despite widespread public support for the amendment. #VotingRights #Gerrymandering #PoliticalSovereignty #US #LA #IN #CA #VA
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Opinion | Democrats Who Are Soft on Republicans Have Got to Go
Last month, Virginians voted to redistrict. They would take the old congressional map, split roughly between Republicans and Democrats, and replace it with a map that left the Republican Party with a single safe seat, covering the southwest of the state.