Jeffries vows 'massive' response following redistricting setback in Virginia

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: The Hill

05/11/26 12:58 PM ET


House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is vowing a “massive” response to last week’s Virginia Supreme Court decision on redistricting, which nullified a new map in the Old Dominion to the advantage of Republicans.

Jeffries said Democrats will be launching a multi-pronged “counteroffensive” featuring new redistricting efforts in blue states, new lawsuits against GOP-drawn maps in red states, and an all-hands messaging push designed to pin rising costs on President Trump and help flip the House to the Democrats’ side in November’s midterms.

“We remain undeterred,” Jeffries wrote Monday in a letter to fellow Democrats. “Our effort to forcefully push back against the Republican redistricting scheme will not slow down. We are just getting started.”

Jeffries said the House Democratic Caucus will huddle as a group on Thursday in the Capitol to chart a path “to advance the largest voter protection effort in modern American history.”. “We will ensure the people decide who controls the Congress,” he wrote, “not MAGA extremists desperate to rig the midterm elections.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5872681-jeffries-virginia-redistricting-response/

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Link to Rep. Jeffries Dear Colleague LETTER - Dear Colleague on Combating Voter Suppression and the GOP Gerrymandering Scheme

[Chasstev365]

1. Until New York, Illinois, and other Blue States start Redistricting NOW, don't hold your breathe!

[FBaggins]

3. New York started... but can't finish until the 2028 cycle

They have essentially the same constitutional requirement that Virginia has - but without a general election prior to 2026.

"Other blue states" is a vanishingly small list. All of those bright blue states in the northeast have no seats that they can pick up.

[Igel]

6. Illinois is already considered "aggressively" gerrymanded.

Has been through the entire "gerrymandering is wrong" push.

I mean, this isn't gerrymandered?



And notice how these two go gerrily go mand-in-mand, so to speak:

[gab13by13]

2. Is "massive response" the new thing to replace sending a stern letter?

[FBaggins]

5. In a way - yes

It's important to be seen as fighting the good fight.

[ananda]

4. Good. Let's John Paul Jones those motherfucking cheats.

DON'T GIVE UP THE FIGHT !!!!!

[Ursus Rex]

7. Yawn. I'm sure eyes will flash and verbal jabs will ensue.

Absolutely nothing beneficial will be accomplished by the one of the most over-hyped and ultimately-do-nothing Minority Leaders ever but he'll get props for ... whatever it is he does.