Actually the Republicans have already destroyed the legitimacy of our republic, I'm sorry. We will defeat them or they will defeat us, it is what it is.

New law idea: vehicles that have outstanding and sufficiently overdue fines and fees cannot be legally serviced

If we are to be a country of laws not of men, men who proclaim themselves to be the Law incarnate are by definition treasonous and engaged in a conspiracy against the People.

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

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The most important reason why Democrats should refuse to capitulate to these illegal and illegitimate acts like what just took place in Virginia is because capitulation only reinforces the belief that politics is futile, which in turn increases the probability that people will turn to violence.

Ignore the VA Supreme Court and you risk a legitimacy crisis. But capitulate and you risk telling everyone that voting no longer matters and that change will only come by taking matters into your own hands. The latter is a billion times worse than the former.

Exactly.

Also I think people hve a right to be pissed they’re disenfranchising black people and undoing the civil rights movement. I think it basically makes you look like a smug moron for tut-tutting people about this.

I agreed about this until the CIA Centrist Governor rolled over after being elected with a mandate and thus am compelled to point out that there is a much larger venn diagram overlap with Fight/Progressive than Fight/Liberal outside like, the Bulwark.

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Why shouldn't Virginia Governor @abigailspanberger.com announce something like "the Supreme Court just ruled that state governments can redistrict, multiple Republican-controlled states already are, and the people of Virginia indicated they want us to, so that's what we're going to do," then do it?

If you see this guy you should spit on him

honestly new litmus test for the California Governor election should be if you support going all the way with a 52-0 map now that John Roberts ruled the VRA is over

the people control the state of affairs in a free society, the job of the judiciary is to uphold rights and interpret law in a way that maximizes human freedom while balancing it against rabid mob justice. this whole thing has become a fucking joke. clerics in robes cannot rule a free country.

It doesn't overturn shit because it can be ignored.

This is an argument for surrender, I didn’t make that necessary, the enemy did

FWIW: This is essentially John Roberts’s “reasoning” in Skrmetti, so, yeah, don’t laugh too hard.

Literally every elected Dem has this information and should drop it immediately. We also need the DNC and state Democratic parties to arm every Southern Dem in office and offer firearms training lessons.

Everything is 2021 again: through extraordinary effort, ordinary people who want to see pluralistic democracy prevail put in place champions far more concerned with playing by the old rules than breaking the power of their massively unpopular and undemocratic opponents.

I support defender of the Republic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

powerful democrats for the most part are institutionalists who've experienced career success by conforming to those institutions. trumpism is psychologically crippling to them bc it implies these institutions can fail and you can experience history. they want to experience employee of the month.

Critically, as long as all of the political responses are within the normal range of political responses, people assume that the inciting incident must have been normal tool After all if it was unusual the response would also be unusual! So normal responses just serve to normalize the original act

Democratic elected officials largely lack will to power.

This is true and extremely bad. We’re getting it either way.

No she didn't. That's just not true.

we're goimg to win the House in November, we're going to hold it in 2028 if Dem states counter-gerrymander, and we're going to have an opportunity to crush these people that we absolutely cannot let slip

We must break American democracy in our favor faster than the GOP can break it in theirs

Yeah, nullify this shit

Very plainly what's going on here is that they don't like the decision by the People of Virginia and have therefore found an excuse to say that it didn't really count This is ultra vires, beyond their authority. It is a usurpation of the sovereignty of the People. It is void.

the reason democracy works so well is that we settle issues via the ballot box. once that avenue dries up because one party wants to entrench themselves in power forever, people start looking for alternatives

This is actually a really good point. The Court can't compel the Legislature to draw a new map. If you drag your feet long enough, the illegal map *is* the map

I think we should also publish the home addresses of the offending judges.

It’s time for @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and VA Dems to double down on- and push for redistricting everywhere else possible.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Ignore it, kick it to SCOTUS, let them rule for republicans. I’m in full heighten the contradictions mode.

The thing to do to prevent this is to pass a national Congressional gerrymander alongside a constitutional amendment to ban partisan gerrymandering.

Spanberger can say that she thinks the court's ability to weigh in on a constitutional referendum after the fact is non-justiciable and say that the current maps will be in place for the 2026 election. Republicans will challenge that in federal court. A liberal Fourth Circuit panel might side 1/

I'm a page and a half in and I'm already fuming. A Republican justice pretending to whine about gerrymandering and quoting Kagan's dissent in Rucho in order to throw out the will of the voters and enshrine Republican gerrymanders elsewhere is so fucking rich.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Yeah OK Hakeem is noticeably improving.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

I don’t think it’s sufficient for Democratic officials to treat these rulings like partisan acts from an out of control activist court. They should be regarded as part of a criminal conspiracy against the republic.

They should use it anyway and Spanberger should have the Virginia Supreme Court rounded up.

Even without any *actual corruption* the allowance for state lawmakers to hold outside jobs (which are often as lawyers!) creates major conflicts of interest issues, as highlighted recently by our friends at @hellgatenyc.com. it's good that NY at least is tamping down on this.

And one of the big reasons--probably THE big reason--that the ADL is bad is that they have been more concerned about anti-Zionism than antisemitism.

Love too randomly lose an hour and a half of sleep to a nightmare of being devoured by tigers.

Yeah I mean this is where the Woke PRI meme comes in