Democrats Appeal To The US Supreme Court On Redistricting

I got some great, great text messages coming in right now on the James River Air text line. 833, 804, 1140, 833, 804, 1140, the number for you to text into the program. Do you need to have a Mother's Day redo? Did you just drop the ball? Again, mine went, my wife went out of town, had a girls' weekend with their cousin, and they went wine tasting up in Charlottesville, so they left Saturday morning. They got back Sunday. I had the house to myself. I straightened everything up. I cleaned up. But I don't know if that's really a great Mother's Day present. It's kind of like when Super Dave looks me. I go, hey, Dave, how was that? And he goes, Herrera, you're supposed to do that. I'm not going to congratulate you on something that's expected out of you. I'm like, you're right. So if I just cleaned the house, there were no dirty dishes, and I fed the dog, and I didn't burn the house down. And I said, happy Mother's Day. I didn't destroy the house. Is that really enough or do I need to have my own Mother's Day redo? 833, 804, 1140. What did you do? Give yourself a grade. So if I was to give myself a grade for the Mother's Day, I cleaned the house, I straightened up, I made the bed, kept the dog alive, didn't burn the house down, fed myself. That pretty much sounds like a D, right? Right? A D? But... I did hang every picture that we've been meaning to hang when she got home. So she came home and I was able to get up like this really pretty framed mirror. like a family picture and some other pictures. So the house looks a lot nicer when she came back. Again, is that really doing something nice for her for Mother's Day or is that just minimal expected out of me? Tell me, 833, 804, 1140 on the James River Air text line. All right, I did want to give you an update this morning here at 635 on News Radio WRVA. So you're going to hear a lot of this in the next few days. What is going on? What is going on as far as Iran in the ceasefire? So we'll get into that coming up on the program. That's a big thing that we're going to talk about. But I also wanted to get you up to date what's going on in the last 24 hours when it comes to the redistricting battle that's not over just quite yet here in Virginia. All right. So over the weekend, two ideas were passed out. Passed around one in New York times other. through the Great Vine. One was, well, you know what we could do is that we can get together and we can, as the General Assembly, lower the retirement age for every justice until it's below whoever the youngest justices. Therefore, they're all instantly forced to retire. We replace the entire Supreme Court and we can have them retry the... appeal from the Taswell Circuit judge who ruled on this first. And that had a lot of consternation around the world in here in Richmond. Then there was an idea that well, they talked about the voting and the moratoriums, they talked about the 90 days, and did you have this all done correctly? Maybe we can go back and use that same precedent that this Supreme Court is set to crush the original gerrymandering.

bipartisan committee that the Commonwealth voted on by 66% just six years ago. Maybe we can kill that, and that way we can go back to gerrymandering how we want. Both of those, Scott Suravelle, said, no, we're not going to do either one of those. But here's what the Democrat leaders are doing now. It was Lucas on Scott and Jay Jones Monday went to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to block... the Virginia Supreme Court order that the new maps approved last month by voters was Nolan Void. The Republicans who challenged the redistricting have a state to respond. And where we live here in central Virginia and the Commonwealth of Virginia, each of the justices will have their different clerks kind of push things up through the pipeline and to... different judges. For us here in Virginia, we fall under the purview of John Roberts. So John Roberts will have to decide whether he wants to see this go before the United States Supreme Court. The referendum that we had passed has fallen under scrutiny. And it was from the very, very beginning. Remember, three court cases, Taswell I, which is the one they ruled on that said, you passed this referendum. after the election started. So in Virginia, you have to have a referendum that passes the General Assembly, then you have an election, and then you repass that referendum before it goes to the voters to have a referendum to change our Commonwealth Constitution. It's difficult to do for a reason because the Constitution should not be flipped on a whim. The Constitution means something. That's why we have the Bill of Rights for the U.S. Constitution. That's why we're pretty strict in the Commonwealth's Constitution because it's not something that you can adjust and push and try and cajole and scooch over here and scooch over there. It is the ultimate law of the land here in Virginia as far as our Commonwealth goes. We all abide by it. It's the highest law of the land in Virginia. The only thing that supersedes that is the U.S. Constitution. So it is on purpose, difficult to change. That's why you have to have the referendum. And then if the lawmakers and the General Assembly vote for it, then the voters get an opportunity to tell them, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't like how you voted. General Assembly. I'm not voting for you. You voted for this thing to change our Constitution. I don't like it. I get a chance to vote them out of office. Again, making this as difficult to do as possible. So I have the referendum. Then I have an opportunity to hold those accountable that voted for the referendum, and then they have to pass it again. And they either pass it with the people that stayed or the new people that are voted in by their constituents can say, no, we're not sending this up for a constitutional amendment. It's that simple. It is very difficult to do. It should not be done in a whim, and it should not be done at a moment's notice. And the problem was, we already had a million votes cast by the time Don Scott, Louise Lucas, and the Democrats introduced the first vote.

The election had already started, so the Supreme Court ruled that you didn't do the process correctly, which is general assembly vote, election, general assembly vote. You did election, general assembly vote because they already started, and then general assembly vote. You didn't have the proper time in between. And that goes back to the 90 days that you post to the courthouse. Basically, they say you've got to give everybody information of what you're doing so you don't do it at the very last moment. The Democrats are still arguing that election means the day of the election. And everything that you do before that doesn't count towards the election because we have this 45-day early voting period. And that's where... The 4-3 judgment came in favor of making this null and void. Now they want to go to this U.S. Supreme Court and say, no, no, no, we did it properly. We had the vote. even though the early voting had started, then we had the vote, then we had the election, which started 45 days before that first vote, but it doesn't count because only election day counts. Then we had a second vote. We got the referendum on. We put it out there. People voted for it by 3%. So next that will go to the U.S. Supreme Court. It's awfully tough for something that has 100% to do with... Virginia state law, Virginia Commonwealth law to be taken up by the higher court. The Virginia Supreme Court rules on things as Virginia Constitution. U.S. Supreme Court rules on U.S. codes and U.S. Constitution. Very rarely, and I'm not sure I've been looking, I haven't found a precedent where the U.S. Supreme Court will take a matter over that was the purview of the... Supreme Court of Virginia. And I did this research because at the time, Republicans were pushing hard. No, no, no, no, no. You guys started this early. You guys, the votes already started. Then you introduced this. And when the Supreme Court put the stay over there and like, nope, mm-mm, we're not going to get involved with this until after the election, per Virginia precedent. I was looking for, okay, well, what happens if Virginia doesn't recognize this or doesn't go and the Republicans lose, will they have an opportunity to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court? And I couldn't find any precedent for that one way or the other. So we'll see what happens. So that's the update. That's what's latest from the Supreme Court. The idea of firing the Supreme Court has gone out the window, this idea of... nullifying our bipartisan committee has gone out the window and the idea now is to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and ask them to intervene on behalf of the Democratic Party and the General Assembly. That's the latest on our redistricting. Quite honestly, I will repeat this again. I hate all of this. I hate all of the gerrymandering on both sides.

I would like to have honest elections where they're competitive. I don't want any safe seats. I want my politicians to earn my vote. I want my politicians to be held accountable. I want my politicians to answer to the people, we the people. I want to pick my legislators. I don't want my legislators picking me. We'll see what happens. But right now, this just seems like mutually agreed destruction, as both sides are just going at it. One side said, you started it. One side said, the other started it. And I've said all along, if I was a kid and my brother punched me and then I punched him back, we'd both get in trouble because what did your mom always say? Two wrongs. Don't make a right. It's that simple. So we'll see where this ends up going, but that's the latest update for you this morning here on Richmond's Morning News. That's why I tell you you've got to start with Richmond's Morning News or you're going to be playing catch-up the rest of the day. All right, today's program is brought to you in part by Greerfinancial Group.com. How'd you sleep last night? Did you toss and turn? Did you toss and turn because you were thinking of something great like, oh my gosh, my kids are getting married or, oh my gosh, I'm about to be a grandfather. or grandmother, or were you toss an attorney like, uh, how am I going to pay for my health insurance? How am I going to pay my rent? How am I going to pay for gasoline in the future? Do I have enough money set aside? A lot of people have trying to figure out. And if you just can't say it right off the bed, yep, you know what, we're good. Then you're going to keep tossing attorney. Stop it. Ask those tough questions. Have those tough discussions. If you haven't sat down and have those, you know what you need to do? Same thing with the car, same thing with your health. Get a second opinion. That's where Michael Greer comes in of Greerfinancialgroup.com. 8.4-4-2-77784.84. Find him at Greerfinancialgroup.com. Have him do it once over and make sure that you're ready for your retirement. That's Michael Greer.grierfinancialgroup.com.