Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National

Review.

Three martini's coming up.

Greg is still out and Jim is about to be out, I think, for two weeks.

This is your last three martini lunch for a little bit here.

But my name is Craig Collins filling in, thrilled to be helping out on today's show. And a lot of big things. I feel like they're in the news, especially one, depending on when you're listening to this, they may have just come out or may have come out a while ago. But it's a very big decision, one that I think a lot of people were actually expecting to be the

end result in Virginia. Jim, do you want to tell us more about the Supreme Court decision to fire

down all of the redistricting efforts in Virginia? Sure. You know, as our listeners probably recall,

Virginia passed a referendum earlier this year that was going to take the state from its current

semi-close division to 10 to 1.

Republicans vehemently opposed it. There were a whole bunch of other folks who were not Republicans

who did not like the idea because it was not just maximizing the Democratic advantage.

Where I live in Fairfax County was going to be represented by five district, different congressional

districts.

One of my favorite jokes from my friend Eric Telford was, I was a great house for sale in

Fairfax County. It's got three bedrooms, two bathrooms, and the house is divided over five

congressional districts. That's how. So about two weeks ago, or, you know, they made the oral

arguments before the state Supreme Court arguing that the mid-decade redistricting was unconstitutional.

Folks I know and respect were saying the oral arguments went very well for our side, so to speak.

The Republicans, the folks who didn't want to see them redrawn.

Craig, I don't know about you.

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