‘You're Wrong' With Mollie Hemingway And David Harsanyi, Ep. 199: NYT Effs The Dog
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🗓️ 13 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back, everyone to a new episode of Your Wrong with Molly Hemingway, editor-in-chief of the Federalist and David Harsani, senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Just as a reminder, if you'd like to email the show, please do so at Radio at theFederalist.com. We'd love to hear from you. Molly, how's it going? Going great. It's a beautiful spring here in northern Virginia. How's it going for? It's nice. It's nice out. |
| 0:39.3 | Speaking of Virginia, I don't think that we ever spoke about the court overturning |
| 0:45.9 | Virginia state amendment to the Constitution that gerrymandered the state. |
| 0:53.3 | And I at least think the most dramatic way any state has ever been |
| 0:56.0 | gerrymandered taking the seats from six, five Democrats to 10-1 Democrats. The Supreme Court found it illegal because it clearly is in the |
| 1:08.8 | Constitution of Virginia that you have a process |
| 1:10.9 | you go through and other laws actually in Virginia and the Democrats ignored them. |
| 1:16.9 | What's interesting to me is that there are other aspects of that I think that haven't even |
| 1:20.7 | been discussed, for instance, the incredibly misleading language on the ballot, for instance, |
| 1:25.9 | about fairness and so on. But in any event, it's been, it's, it's, uh, been found illegal. I believe they're, they're going to appeal it to the Supreme Court of the United States, which makes really no sense to me because this is completely about low, you know, Virginia law and has no real, you know, constitutional bearing. I don't think. I could be wrong. I'm not a lawyer. |
| 1:46.3 | That was exciting to see, wasn't it? It was unexpected because Democrats kind of control that court |
| 1:52.9 | with their appointments and they serve not lifetime appointments, but do they, I actually don't know |
| 2:00.2 | if they serve lifetime appointments on the Virginia Supreme Court, but I know there I actually don't know if they serve lifetime appointments |
| 2:01.3 | on the Virginia Supreme Court, but I know there's some aspect of it where they serve at the |
| 2:04.8 | pleasure of the legislature. So it was something of a miracle that this Virginia Supreme Court |
| 2:11.2 | said, yeah, this just is clearly unconstitutional. I shouldn't say that, you know, but you just |
| 2:16.2 | don't see so many Democrat |
| 2:19.5 | appointed judges or justices being willing to say stuff like that sometimes. So, and we've |
| 2:25.8 | seen so much activism from various lower than Supreme Court judges and justices. So I was not |
| 2:33.6 | expecting that at all. I knew there were multiple |
| 2:36.3 | constitutional challenges that might delay the implementation until such time as, you know, |
| 2:42.5 | something else would happen in Virginia, but it was a real unexpected gift to a Republican |
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