Tag: Ali Ahmad
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After the Vote, What’s Next for Virginia’s New Rigged Maps?
by Ali Ahmad Between Friday March 6th and Tuesday April 21st, a narrow majority of Virginia voters went to the polls (or to their mailboxes) and voted in favor of the disenfranchisement of rural Virginia, as part of a national effort to make New York Representative Hakeem Jefferies the Speaker of the House next year.…
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Potentially Disastrous Legislative Brinksmanship
by Ali Ahmad One of the most striking themes from last Wednesday’s reconvened session was the widespread rejection of Governor Spanberger‘s recommendations. Legislative Information Services shows that of 180 bills amended, the legislature adopted 137, placing those bills straight into law without returning them to her desk. For the first time in decades, the General Assembly also preemptively…