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Genuine question, how is something that actual citizens voted for be deemed unconstitutional?
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Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' redrawn US House maps, giving Republicans a win — The Associated Press

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Anonymous 20h

As i understand it, the law required that one “regular” election to occur between the approval of the initiative and the public voting on the initiative. The general assembly passed the bill *on* election day 2025, so there we no intervening election

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Anonymous 19h

Popular doesn’t mean legal. They would have to pass a constitutional amendment to make it legal.

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Anonymous 47m

The rules aren’t real. None of this is real. Money isn’t fucking real. The only thing that is real is the violence, the legalize violence that can be done to people for not having money. For not going along with the fake rich people’s rules. The only reality backing any of this is rich people doing everything in their power to pay for society to keep them rich for just another quarter just another six months just keep capitalism going a little bit longer.

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Anonymous 20h

because of fascists.

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Anonymous 20h

Because there’s a process to amend the constitution and they didn’t follow it

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

meanwhile TN just gerrymandered the black-majority districts out and went entirely red…

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

(which was not put up to a vote I might add, entirely against the will of the voters)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

that’s moral and besides, it is entirely constitutional

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 20h

The court ruled 4-3 that the state's Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade redistricting.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

Like it doesn’t matter if it’s moral or not It’s not unconstitutional in Tennessee to do that. It is in Virginia

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 20h

Thanks for explaining it better then I am

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

SCOTUS literally gutted the Voting Rights Act and then republicans gerrymandered the only 2 blue districts out of Tennessee days later. It is unconstitutional, but that word doesn’t mean much when every branch of the government is corrupt.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

“that’s moral” go ahead and expand on that. outward white supremacy is moral in your eyes? the TN map was created at the direction of the White House, and did not have any input of the voters in which they disenfranchised. you’re going to sit here and attempt to justify that based off the weaponization of the judicial system?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 20h

let’s rephrase given the instability of our current patchwork judicial system: do you personally view either instance as individually justified, or do you view both as individually unjustified? Keep in mind, the only reason TN’s recent redistricting isn’t a direct violation of the law is because the SCOTUS gouged the voting rights act.

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