“Let’s See If The Courts Will Fix This” – Trump Goes Off Over Virginia Redistricting
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Legislation to pass a new Virginia congressional map was passed in a congressional redistricting referendum on Monday.
The map might end up giving Democrats a 10-1 advantage rather than 6-5.
Democrats scored a major victory Tuesday when Virginia voters narrowly passed a congressional redistricting referendum that could give the party a significant boost in the battle for the U.S. House of Representatives majority in this year’s midterm elections, The Associated Press reported at 8:49 p.m. ET.
The ballot measure gives the Democrat-controlled Virginia legislature — rather than the state’s current nonpartisan commission — temporary redistricting power through the 2030 election. It could result in a 10-1 advantage for Democrats in Virginia’s congressional delegation, up from their current 6-5 edge.
The referendum, which follows President Donald Trump’s push for rare but not unheard-of mid-decade redistricting in Republican-led states, would give the Democrats four additional left-leaning U.S. House seats ahead of the midterms as the party tries to win back control of the chamber from the GOP, which currently holds a razor-thin majority.
Donald Trump called the language in the referendum “purposefully unintelligible and deceptive.”
Trump said, “Let’s see if the Courts will fix this travesty of “Justice.
A RIGGED ELECTION TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT IN THE GREAT COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA! All day long Republicans were winning, the Spirit was unbelievable, until the very end when, of course, there was a massive “Mail In Ballot Drop!” Where have I heard that before — And the Democrats eked out another Crooked Victory! Six to five goes to ten to one, and yet the Presidential Election in November was very close to a 50-50 split. In addition to everything else, the language on the Referendum was purposefully unintelligible and deceptive. As everyone knows, I am an extraordinarily brilliant person, and even I had no idea what the hell they were talking about in the Referendum, and neither do they! Let’s see if the Courts will fix this travesty of “Justice.” President DONALD J. TRUMP
A Virginia judge blocked the certification of the results of the referendum.
A Virginia judge blocked the state from certifying the results of Tuesday’s congressional map referendum, deeming the referendum and the bill that triggered it as unconstitutional, according to a judge’s order issued Wednesday.
Virginia’s current attorney general, Jay Jones, confirmed to 7News on Wednesday that his office would appeal the decision.
The order, according to officials, came from the Tazewell Circuit Court, which previously blocked the referendum after repeatedly deeming the vote and the resolution for the referendum unconstitutional, siding with Republicans who filed several suits.
Both previous attempts at blocking the referendum were struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court.
