The SCOVA Decision is Confusing

But that doesn't mean you can spread blame Dems for it.

Since the SCOVA decision came down, I have been positively horrified by people’s reaction.

The most common reaction I see is people saying Virginia should have broken the rules. That this proves that Dems don’t do anything and obviously don’t care.

Here’s the thing, Republicans didn’t get here by breaking the rules, they got here by REMAKING THE RULES. They got here by using the rules to their advantage decade after decade, and then putting people in place to uphold those rules.

We are FINALLY catching up, and all I see is people saying it’s not good enough and therefore Dems don’t deserve their vote.

But…that’s how we got here. We got here by people on the left demanding perfection over progress, over and over again.

Breaking the law in the way I see people demanding is fascism. Left wing fascism is not somehow better than right wing fascism.

Dems DID, and still ARE fighting with everything the law allows. And oftentimes we win. And in Virginia, we haven’t, yet, though the fight is very much ongoing.

So, here’s how incredible our VA Dems are:

In Virginia, there is only one way to change the constitution. The bill has to go through TWO SEPARATE references in two separate legislative sessions with a House of Delegates election separating them.

This way, if voters don’t want the bill to pass, they can oust enough members in the election that it doesn’t pass the second reference. Or, make sure enough members stay in office that it does.

That means the first session HAS to be in an odd year and the second HAS to be in an even year.

In 2024, Dem Speaker, Don Scott opened a session and never closed it. He strategically reopening it for the redistricting vote in Oct 2025, which is allowed. If a session isn’t closed, it can stay open indefinitely. Which is exactly what he did. THAT session was used for that first reference. The vote passed the House and Senate in October. Thing is, early voting had already started.

During the next regular session in 2026, they voted for the second time, it passed and then was voted on by voters in April. You know this part.

Republicans argued a lot of things to get this thrown out from the concept of keeping the session open to having an election within 90 days of Spanberger signing the bill. But the lawsuit that held up involved the concept of “election.”

By the time of the Oct 2025 session, early voting had already started, so since the entire point of the two references is that those members can be ousted if they vote in a way the majority of voters don’t like, Republicans found a voter who said they would have voted differently had they known about the referendum.

Funny, thing, SCOTUS made the exact opposite distinction with Louisiana to let THEM redistrict DURING an election that was already in progress. And now AG Jay Jones, TODAY, has brought the VA case to SCOTUS. Which IS continuing to fight back using every single resource they have.

If SCOTUS rules against VA Dems that will be the most partisan decision they’ve ever made.

And if they rule in favor, then it’s a real life version of The Sneetches, except instead of star and plain bellies going into machines, it’s VA Dems and LA Dems going into SCOTUS arguing for an opinion that should reverse the other.

And it’s truly remarkable that 4-3 SCOVA still ruled the way they did, even knowing about the SCOTUS decision, but Republicans will Republican.

And yeah, Florida rules are the same. And yes, Governor Ron DeSantis just doesn’t care, but the SCOFL doesn’t care either. And no Governor Abigail Spanberger can’t do the same thing in VA, because, replacing the court like that is fascism, even if it’s a Democrat doing so.

AND, why even consider that when the guy who wrote the majority opinion is literally up next year and our very Dem General Assembly will replace him. Which will make the court 4-3 so soon.

Bottom line, Dems used ALL their power to make this vote happen. And are continuing to use all their power now to fight the ruling.

Yet I KEEP hearing that they’re feckless and didn’t try.

Just because something doesn’t work doesn’t mean Democrats didn’t do it ALL.

Not everything works 100% of the time. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing OR that it’s not worth celebrating being done in the first place.

We can’t only acknowledge the things that are successful. Success isn’t a barometer for fighting back.

If you don’t try at all, you never win. But if we fight back every single time, use malicious compliance to our advantage, we WILL win a lot of the time.

It happens when electeds get arrested too. I STILL see people demanding Members of Congress get arrested. But some have, and those same people who say it NEVER mention LaMonica McIver. Why? It is cause we don’t have pictures of her being handcuffed? Is that the line now?

They ARE fighting back. They ARE playing the game, and if we don’t support them then what are they doing it for at all?

It doesn’t work without our praise and support, it just doesn’t.

So stop using your voice to moving the goal post and instead start celebrating the fight.

This was the fight and continues to be the fight and they, especially Jay Jones, right now, needs our support through this entire fight.

All clear on the marching orders?