A far-left Beltway organization is behind a suit to redraw the voting maps of a major Virginia City in order to increase Democrat control.

The Campaign Legal Center, a D.C. lawsuit group that was once funded with millions of dollars by infamous crypto-fraudster Sam Bankman Fried, represents two Virginia Beach plaintiffs who are suing to change the way residents elect city council members and school board officials. The lawsuit, if successful, could create new Democrat controlled “majority minority” seats or districts whose residents consist mainly of non-whites.

The case centers around Virginia Beach’s “7-3-1”, a complex voting system that is divided into seven council districts, where candidates must live to be eligible to run for local offices in order to represent these neighborhoods, and three at-large seats in which candidates can reside anywhere in the city. Residents elect a citywide mayor, hence the “7-3-1” voting system.

In reality, voters may vote for five councilmembers: one for each district, plus one for every at-large position, and the mayor. Virginia Beach’s charter requires that the local school board also follow this system. The stakes for the future of Virginia Beach are therefore high.

Progressives From the Black Lagoon

This lawsuit was a partisan political case from the beginning.  The Campaign Legal Center’s lawsuit was filed in 2017 by two residents who alleged that the city’s ” racially-discriminatory ” districts were discriminatory against minorities, violating the Constitution’s first, fourteenth and fifteenth Amendments as well as 1965 Voting Right Act. The plaintiffs’ goal: replace the at-large district with three single-member councils, with each having a majority of non-white voters that is virtually guaranteed to elect non-white council members (i.e. a Democrat).

Virginia Beach is far from racial discriminatory. In fact, it has elected several black councilmembers, and a member of the school board who ran for at-large elections. It’s not necessary to file a lawsuit… unless your goal is to increase Democrat influence in a city that leans Republican.

There’s also the Campaign Legal Center, which regularly sues states to prevent them from requiring proofs of citizenship in order to vote and to draw district maps that are favourable to Democrats.

Virginia Beach plaintiffs will be represented by top CLC redistricting attorneys, who have each worked in left-wing activist groups. Mark Gaber engaged in a 2023 lawsuit (Clarke v. Wisconsin Election Commission) in which the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s new “progressive” majority struck down Republican-drawn district maps, replacing them with maps designed to help Democrats win more seats in the Republican-controlled legislature.

Simone Leeper is a senior legal counsel and former law clerk of Democrat Senator Ed Markey (MA). She participated in lawsuits that sought to eliminate the witness and notary requirement for mail-in votes in the 2020 elections, which was the most basic measure for voting via mail. Annabelle Harless, an attorney, used to be a member of the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. This group is critical of America’s deeply entrenched “systems of racism, economic oppression, and discrimination.”

Sam Bankman Fried, the cryptocurrency entrepreneur who was sentenced by the Justice Department to 25 years in prison for orchestrating several fraudulent schemes, reportedly funded CLC with $2.5 millions from 2021-2022. Bankman-Fried may have contributed over 95% of the revenue for CLC’s advocacy arm alone in 2021.

More contributions by far-left mega-funders.

• The Democracy Fund is the philanthropic arm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, which has been involved in numerous attempts to undermine election security.
• Open Society Foundations of George Soros, a cornerstone of the extreme Left
• Atlantic Philanthropies was a Bermuda-based foundation that has since closed down. It bypassed the restrictions of charitable activity in the United States and funded the campaign to pass Obamacare.
• Ford Foundation is one of America’s largest “progressive groups” funders;
• Hewlett Foundation, a top abortion funder;
• The Joyce Foundation is a Chicago-based left-wing philanthropy, whose board included former Senator Barack Obama.
• Southern Poverty Law Center is responsible for labeling conservative groups as “hate-groups”.
• Wellspring Philanthropy is a dark money group that has supported numerous political campaigns by the Arabella Advisors activist networks;
• The Sandler Foundation, the funder of the investigative journalism site ProPublica that is leftist, has been accused by conservatives of biased reporting.

Rumblings of the Supreme Court

The issue of minority districts could soon be moot, even though the Virginia Beach case is still ongoing.

Restoration News reported on an important new case that was recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court is expected to rule that congressional districts with a majority of minorities are unconstitutional in accordance with the 14th Amendment and 15th Amendment to the Constitution.

All but 23 of the 144 districts with a majority minority in the House of Representatives are controlled by Democrats. If the provision on majority-minority is repealed, up to 36 of the safe Democrat seats could become competitive after the next Census, which could happen as soon as 2026 according to President Trump’s order.

This has the potential of creating a huge Republican House majority…and Democrats can’t stop it. The court’s ruling will be announced in October.