Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones went on CNN and refused to answer a straightforward question about whether his state’s redistricting measure violated the Virginia Constitution’s 90-day timing clause. Instead, he dismissed the judge who ruled against the measure as “an activist”, and kept talking past the numbers.
The exchange, which aired Thursday on “CNN News Central,” laid bare a problem that no amount of political spin can fix: the calendar. The Virginia General Assembly passed the constitutional amendment allowing redistricting in mid-January. Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, signed it in early February. Early voting began March 6. That is not 90 days. It is not close to 90 days.
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