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Courts Won’t Stop VA Dems’ Gerrymandering Gambit, So Where Is The GOP’s Ground Game?

Republicans cannot use lawsuits as their only strategy to stop gerrymandering. They need be in campaign mode, knocking doors, and getting people to the polls if and when the election occurs.

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The Republican National Committee (RNC) and National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) have filed a lawsuit to try to stop Virginia Democrats’ gerrymandering power-grab referendum.

On Thursday, a judge temporarily blocked the Democrat effort, but with a state Supreme Court case allowing the referendum to move forward, Republicans need to be prepared with a ground game to beat the referendum at the ballot box.

Reps. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., and Ben Cline, R-Va., both representing western Virginia districts, joined the RNC / NRCC action, and the RNC filed an emergency motion for a preliminary injunction, as well as a hearing for a temporary restraining order which they have asked to take place before March 2, just before early voting would begin for the April 21 election.

The joint lawsuit, filed in Tazewell County, challenges the wording of the Democrats’ referendum, which claims to “restore fairness in the upcoming elections,” while weaving all but one congressional district, somehow, into deep blue parts of the commonwealth in order to change a 6 Democrat-5 Republican delegation to a 10 Democrat-1 Republican one.

As RNC chairman Joe Gruters said in a press release announcing the lawsuit, “Despite nearly half of Virginians supporting President Trump, Abigail Spanberger and Democrats are working to silence voters and lock in permanent political control.”

The lawsuit also argues the initiative is unconstitutional and a violation of state law. Some of that was affirmed in the decision to another Tazewell County case earlier this month, but the Virginia Supreme Court allowed the election to go forward while opening the possibility to hear challenges afterward.

Newly minted Republican Party of Virginia........

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