💪“Redistricting Arms Race” Edition
Virginia voters went to the polls Tuesday, approved a plan to redraw congressional maps, Democrats celebrated saving democracy by aggressively rearranging it, and then a judge stepped in the next day and essentially said, “Actually, none of that counts.”
The referendum, which was supposed to help Democrats claw back seats after Republicans kicked off a nationwide redistricting arms race, is now frozen because a court ruled the whole thing invalid “from the beginning,” which is a neat trick if you can pull it off after the votes are already counted.
Democrats say an “activist judge” just overruled the will of the people; Republicans say the process was illegitimate anyway; and Trump says the ballot was so confusing that even his “extraordinarily brilliant” brain couldn’t decipher it. So at the moment, the great battle to save democracy has entered its next logical phase: voters vote, politicians celebrate, and judges decide whether any of it actually happened. Welcome to Democracy in the Trump era.
Rob Rogers - Tinyview Comics and Andrews McMeel
Nick Anderson - Substack (and editor of Counterpoint)
Bill Bramhall - Tribune Content Agency
Pedro Molina - Tinyview and Tribune Content Agency
RJ Matson - cagle.com/matson
Joel Pett - Tribune Content Agency
Jimmy Margulies - King Features
Lee Judge - King Features
Matt Wuerker - Andrews McMeel
Brilliant but tragic and true! Thank you!
Most difficult to choose the first place. Each is a masterpiece. Each makes you laugh (Jimmy Margulies) or cry (Joel Pett). In the end, I went for Nick Anderson's dogs, the turnabout for Don Fraud Van Scam.