On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) responded to a question on the timing issues with the state’s redistricting measure by saying the judge who ruled against the measure is an activist.
Co-host Brianna Keilar asked, “[T]he judge here also said this effort violates the timing clause of Virginia’s Constitution, because voters didn’t have the 90 days between the General Assembly passing the constitutional amendment allowing this redistricting and the voters voting on it. It was signed in early February by the governor. It was passed in January. It went [in] early March for early votes, it was presented to voters. Do you disagree with that timing argument?”
Jones responded, “Well, look, again, I think that one judge, an activist judge who was engaged in this earlier –.”
Keilar then cut in to ask, “I’m not asking you about the judge. I’m asking you,
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