A Virginia judge has ruled that the state's redistricting referendum authored by Democrats was unconstitutional, reports Fox News, citing rules that impose certain requirements that the referendum did not meet. The decision is being appealed by the State attorney general, and ultimately the Virginia Supreme Court will decide if whether the narrow victory approving the Democrats new Congressional map will stand.
AFN reported previously that that many individuals and business owners were threatening to move out of Virginia if the Democrat redistricting was followed through.
Meanwhile, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called back in January for a special session of the legislature to consider a redistricting plan in April, which could offset the effect of the Virginia redistricting plan.
Jenna Ellis is host of “Jenna Ellis in the Morning” on AFR who resides in Florida. She says that unlike Virginia, the Florida plan is not political.
“It was because, obviously, the 2020 census. There were massive problems, especially with illegals being able to vote, the lack of the citizenship question being able to be on that. And so, there are a lot of problems with districts not accurately reflecting what the voting populace is,” states Ellis. “The purpose for Republicans redistricting in states like Florida and other red states is to correct those issues.”
Ellis says it is also to have district maps that more closely reflect the actual electorate in those state.
That is not, she says, what they did in Virginia.
“What Democrats are doing then is saying, ‘Fine, we'll go to our blue states and we will redraw our maps that absolutely don't look anything like our electorate.’ Virginia, if you look at the voting tally for the redistricting measure, it only passed by 51%. That is basically a half and half measure, at least of the turnout,” states Ellis. “That absolutely proves and indicates that Virginia is not a 10 to 1 Democrat population, but that's what the redistricting would show.”
