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plan, and may yet get blocked by the state’s Supreme Court. The measure also has to pass in a referendum, and there’s a chance voters will reject it, although Democrats have scheduled the vote for April, when turnout is low.

TITLE: None of this is worthy of a state with one of the finest political traditions in America. Virginia Democrats tell themselves they are just responding to Texas, but Democratic states like Illinois and California were already heavily gerrymandered prior to the Lone Star state redrawing its map, and Virginia is going above and beyond in its rank partisan grubbiness.

Democratic state senator Louise Lucas crowed after Democrats produced their maps, “We said 10-1, and we meant it.” Yes, indeed, they are determined to protect democracy — Virginia voters be damned.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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