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“The Blue Wave Is Really Coming Back”: How the Supreme Court Just Flipped the Script in Virginia
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 18, 2019 04:55pm |
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| Author | Abigail Tracy |
| News Date | Monday, June 17, 2019 09:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Arguably, Virginia’s 66th District is the precise epicenter of the nation’s political wars—and the Supreme Court, with the help of two of its most conservative judges, just tilted it toward the Democrats. In a somewhat unexpected decision, the Court dismissed the challenge to a lower court ruling in which the judges said 11 districts in Virginia were racially gerrymandered. Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch sided with the liberal wing of the Court—Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—in arguing that Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates didn’t have the legal standing to challenge the decision of the Eastern U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Virginia’s 66th was redrawn. Its representative is Republican Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates Kirk Cox, who has represented the district for 29 years. Cox led the House Republican effort to overturn the lower court’s decision, at the cost of millions of dollars to Virginian taxpayers. In a January interview with the Washington Post, Cox slammed the new map as “legally indefensible” and designed to “target senior Republicans” like himself. In the wake of the court’s decision, the Republican is expected to face his first tough race in decades in his redrawn district, which is expected to be a full 32 percentage points more favorable to Democrats this November. |
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