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SCOTUS Crowns ‘Good Week’ For The Rule Of Law By Gutting Racial Gerrymandering

‘It’s been a good week’ for the rule of law, election law expert Hans von Spakovsky told The Federalist following Wednesday’s ruling.

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It’s been a long week for the gerrymandering Democrats.

On Monday, attorneys representing Virginia Democrats’ absurdly gerrymandered rewrite of the commonwealth’s congressional maps faced some pointed questions from a skeptical-sounding Virginia Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, the high court denied a motion brought by Virginia Attorney General Jay “Two Bullets” Jones to appeal Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack “Chip” Hurley Jr.’s immediate ruling declaring unconstitutional last week’s referendum to change Virginia’s constitution. Voters narrowly approved a ballot question seeking to “temporarily” rip out a 2020 amendment that put political map-making in the hands of an independent commission — an inconvenient impediment to Democrats’ drive to change the current congressional maps to grab four more seats in Congress in the midterms. If all goes as the Dems planned, the new maps would give them a 10-1 advantage in Virginia’s congressional delegation.

Also on Tuesday, a three-judge panel dismissed a leftist lawfare group’s “novel” lawsuit seeking to rewrite Wisconsin’s congressional maps further to the Democratic Party’s advantage. The ruling marked the second rejection of the Democrats’ efforts to nix congressional maps drawn by the Red China-sounding People’s Maps Commission, handpicked by far-left Gov. Tony Evers. They have hopes a liberal-led Wisconsin Supreme Court will come to their rescue.

Luke Berg, deputy counsel for the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, the Milwaukee-based law firm that successfully fought the lawsuit, called the lawsuit’s legal argument “novel” and “especially crazy.”

As Berg notes, there are uncompetitive districts everywhere. Madison and Milwaukee are massively uncompetitive state political districts for Republicans, for example. 

“I searched nationwide for an anti-competitive gerrymander. I couldn’t find one,” Berg said in a phone interview this week with The Federalist. “They don’t cite one in their lawsuit. They don’t cite anything.” 

But the most impactful decision arrived on Wednesday. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a 6-3 bombshell ruling gutting the discriminatory practice of racial gerrymandering in the redistricting process. The 6-3 majority opinion, written........

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