| Poll |
| Should Democrats Move Their Convention Out of North Carolina? |
|
|
|
Results
|
Progressive Legal Directory
www.criminallawyervirginia.net
www.virginia-duilawyers.com
www.virginia-personalinjurylawyer.com
www.recklessdrivinglawyer.net
www.helpdisabilitylawyer.com
www.criminallawdc.com
www.duilawsdc.com
ADT Home Security in
Virginia
|
|
|
Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 20:58:55 PM EST
|
I know we're all focused on the State of the Union address, but this is pretty important too: Round #1 in the legal battle over Virginia's Republcian-favored Congressional redistricting plan goes to the good guys. :) Click here for the full order by Judge Richard D. Taylor, Jr. of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond. The conclusion is as follows:
For the reasons previously stated, the Court finds that the Plaintiffs have standing to bring this action, that this matter is ripe for decision, that the doctrines of separation of powers and sovereign immunity do not preclude it from deciding this matter, and that the language of Article II, Section 6, of the Constitution of Virginia speaks in mandatory, not directory, terms. Accordingly, the Defendants' Motion to Dismiss is DENIED and their Plea in Bar of Sovereign Immunity is OVERRULED. In short, we won the first step of the redistricting lawsuit, probably many more steps to go but great news nonetheless. Now, back to the SOTU! |
| lowkell :: BREAKING: Court Rules Against McDonnell, Bolling, Cooch on Motion to Dismiss Redistricting Case |
|
|
| Advertising |
|
| About |
|
The purpose of Blue Virginia is to cover Virginia politics from a progressive and Democratic perspective. This is a group blog and a community blog. We invite everyone to comment here, but please be aware that profanity, personal attacks, bigotry, insults, rudeness, frequent unsupported or off-point statements, and "trolling" (NOTE: that includes outright lies, whether about climate science, or what other people said, or whatever) are not permitted and, if continued, will lead to banning. For more on trolling, see the Daily Kos FAQs. Also note that diaries may be deleted if they do not contain at least 2 solid paragraphs of original text; if not, please use the comments section of a relevant diary. For more on writing diaries, click here. Thanks, and enjoy!
P.S. You can contact us at lowell@raisingkaine.com and you can subscribe to Lowell's Twitter feed here. If you'd like to subscribe to Miles Grant's Twitter feed, click here. For Teacherken, click here. For Kindler, click here.
P.P.S. To see the Blue Virginia archive, please click here. To see the Raising Kaine archive, please click here. To see the Blue Commonwealth archive, please click here.
RSS Feed
Subscribe to Blue Virginia - Front Page
|
|
