Last week, Democrats celebrated their narrow win in Virginia’s redistricting referendum. This week, they find less and less to celebrate.
Yesterday, the state supreme court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by Republicans over several irregularities in the process. While it’s usually a fool’s errand to predict outcomes from the questions asked in this Socratic process, the questions appeared to center on points made by challengers, especially in how the referendum got added to the ballot after early voting had already started. State law at the time required publication 90 days in advance of the election too, and the judges questioned why the state ignored that and then retroactively repealed the requirement. It certainly looked like the top court had serious reservations about the referendum and the process. Observers warned about reading too much into that, perhaps wisely since those issues had been raised in challenges before the election.
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