{"id":591285,"date":"2026-04-24T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591285"},"modified":"2026-04-24T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T20:28:00","slug":"va-gerrymander-language-is-so-dishonest-dems-refuse-to-defend-it-in-court-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591285","title":{"rendered":"VA Gerrymander Language Is So Dishonest, Dems Refuse To Defend It In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-151442-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"virginia gerrymandering jones\" \/>&#8216;If the language were defensible, [Jay Jones] would have defended it. A lawyer who believes in his ballot question quotes his ballot question.&#8217;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-24-151442-1200x675.jpg\" title=\"VA Gerrymander Language Is So Dishonest, Dems Refuse To Defend It In Court\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;If the language were defensible, [Jay Jones] would have defended it. A lawyer who believes in his ballot question quotes his ballot question.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/591274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}