Trump has a bold option to counter Virginia's new gerrymander scheme

If you’re arrogant of something, you privation radical to spot it. That is wherefore it’s telling that Virginia Democrats are asking Old Dominion residents to ballot for a redistricting strategy without allowing their projected representation to beryllium printed connected the ballots.

But it’s nary wonder: the mid-decade redistricting connection is an obscene gerrymander that volition hitch retired each but 1 GOP-leaning legislature territory successful the state. And, of course, they assertion it’s each done successful the sanction of "democracy."

This dishonest powerfulness play seeks to marque the legislature practice of a purple authorities astir arsenic bluish arsenic Massachusetts. It disenfranchises astir fractional the Commonwealth (Virginia went 51.8%-46.6% for Vice President Kamala Harris successful 2024). The projected districts are utmost – moving from heavy populated bluish areas heavy into agrarian reddish areas. Federal authorities employees successful Arlington and Fairfax volition fundamentally dictate the legislature practice of farmers and shopkeepers up to 100 miles away.

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Local airwaves person been inundated with ads pushing this redistricting strategy arsenic a benevolent effort to prevention ideology and "free and just elections." One ubiquitous advertisement features erstwhile President Barack Obama carrying connected his contented for honesty that was exemplified successful his infamous declaration, "if you similar your plan, you tin support your plan." Now it’s, "if you similar your district, you tin support your district," with the hollow committedness of going backmost to Virginia’s regular redistricting process successful 2030.

One mates made their lawsuit for voting against the referendum that would alteration the Virginia Congressional representation connected their SUV. (Fox News Digital)

Materials provided to the grassroots are a spot much transparent than the types of phony appeals to ideology wielded by the erstwhile president, governor, and different scheming progressives. Yard signs supporting the inaugural are overmuch much wide astir the intent of the initiative, urging voters to "fight back" against MAGA.

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It is evident to anyone paying attraction that, alternatively than an effort to "restore fairness" oregon "level the playing field," the Virginia gerrymander, or Virgerrymander, is thing much than an effort to stack the platform successful favour of Democrats to weaken President Donald Trump.

So, what tin the president and his allies do? Aside from motivating Virginia residents to reason this powerfulness grab, Trump has different instrumentality helium tin usage to "fight back," to get the supporters’ phrase. He could combat occurrence with occurrence and take different benignant of re-Districting.

In 1790, Virginia and Maryland each gave 5 quadrate miles of onshore to the Federal authorities to make a territory for a caller nationalist capital. That Virginia onshore remained portion of the District of Columbia until 1847 erstwhile it was retroceded to the commonwealth. The shameful crushed for that retrocession was protecting slavery successful Virginia erstwhile the District abolished it.

This became moot aft the Union defeated the ancestors of this existent effort to rig elections and defy the elected national enactment successful the Civil War. Other presidents, including William Howard Taft, person considered retrocession unconstitutional and wanted to reclaim the onshore for the District, but the Supreme Court has ne'er been asked to measurement in.

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President Trump could contented an enforcement bid declaring the slavery-motivated retrocession unconstitutional, triggering definite ineligible action, and allowing the courts to yet measurement successful connected whether the region of Arlington and the metropolis of Alexandria successful information decently beryllium to the District of Columbia.

This Order would beryllium connected amended ineligible footing than galore of President Joe Biden’s astir egregious orders, specified arsenic those imposing an eviction moratorium oregon forgiving billions successful pupil indebtedness with the changeable of an (auto) pen. As immoderate of the deepest bluish areas of the Commonwealth – and the state – and loaded with national authorities employees, residents of this portion should consciousness close astatine location arsenic portion of D.C.

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In an advertisement pushing for voters to backmost her party’s gerrymandering scheme, Spanberger calls this an "extraordinary moment." So it is. Extraordinary times telephone for bonzer measures – measures that, dissimilar the "Virgerrymander," are ineligible and ethical.

If Virginia Democrats’ redistricting succeeds, President Trump should re-District Virginia. It volition not lone neutralize the president’s governmental opponents’ determination to stack Congress against him – frankincense protecting him from different apt sham impeachment – but, astir importantly, it volition prevention a large fig of reddish Virginians from having their votes canceled retired by heavy bluish D.C.-adjacent liberals.

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