Virginia GOP asks Supreme Court to delay redistricting deadline: report

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Republicans in Virginia's General Assembly are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to delay a lower court's requirement that it redraw state legislative district lines by October.

The Washington Post reported Monday that state GOP lawmakers requested an appeal, arguing that a federal court reached an incorrect conclusion regarding Virginia's legislative districts.

The request comes after judges for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in June that the state's 11 House of Delegates districts were gerrymandered along racial lines. The 2-to-1 ruling also came with an order for lawmakers to redraw lines for the state's House districts by Oct. 30.

"Overwhelming evidence in this case shows that, contrary to this constitutional mandate, the state has sorted voters into districts based on the color of their skin," Judge Barbara Milano Keenan wrote in last month's majority opinion.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/396318-virginia-republicans-ask-supreme-court-to-delay-deadline-for-redistricting-plan

[lagomorph777]

1. They'll never stop trying to screw us. And SCROTUS is in the balance.

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RePutins control the VA Legislature by a single seat; they stole that seat by fabricating a single fraudulent vote. They are clearly frightened.

[MBS]

6. + 100.

You summarize my thoughts to a T.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. They want to wait until the latest deplorable is on the bench

[nonviolence9]

3. May Kennedy say no in one of his last actions on court

Virginia is 1st in the country in judicial murders...since 1789
It's time to remove the dead hand of the past from the state

[lark]

4. Russian repug SCOTUS will just find some way to invalidate this.

They don't give a fuck about partisan cheating, hell, they do whatever they need to do for rw causes regardless of legal issues. if
dems ever manage to take back the presidency and the Senate, they need to first off make a rule that there are no filibusters for any nomination. Then the president needs to nominate 2 additional leftie justices to make up for the ones installed by the criminal to give the working class a chance.

[appalachiablue]

5. The racist gerrymandering is horrible to see in Va., other places..