{"id":85,"date":"2026-05-08T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:34:10","slug":"virginia-supreme-court-strikes-down-democrats-redrawn-us-house-maps-giving-republicans-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats\u2019 redrawn US House maps, giving Republicans a win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div><div><p><strong>By DAVID A. LIEB and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=80\">Canvas system used by thousands of schools is back online after a cyberattack disrupted studies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The court ruled 4-3 that the state\u2019s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade redistricting. Voters\u00a0narrowly approved\u00a0the amendment April 21, but the court\u2019s ruling renders the results of that vote meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for the majority, Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote that the legislature submitted the proposed constitutional amendment to voters \u201cin an unprecedented manner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats had hoped to win as many as four additional U.S. House seats under Virginia\u2019s redrawn U.S. House map as part of an attempt to offset Republican\u00a0redistricting\u00a0done elsewhere at the urging of\u00a0President Donald Trump. That ruling, combined with a recent\u00a0U.S. Supreme Court decision\u00a0severely weakening the Voting Rights Act, has supercharged the Republicans\u2019 congressional gerrymandering advantage heading into this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Hudson, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee said the ruling was another sign of GOP momentum heading into the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re on offense, and we\u2019re going to win,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Don Scott, the Democratic speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, said Democrats respect the court\u2019s opinion but lamented that it overturned the will of the voters: \u201cThey voted YES because they wanted to fight back against the Trump power grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suzan DelBene, chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, criticized the court majority for what she said was a decision that \u201ccast aside the will of the voters,\u201d but she said the people will have the final say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn November, they will, and they\u2019ll power Democrats to the House majority,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div><ul><div><div><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"State Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle speaks outside the Supreme Court of Virginia.\" class=\"wp-image-82\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/182a37153bd48d557e240075cd538111-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/182a37153bd48d557e240075cd538111-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/182a37153bd48d557e240075cd538111-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/182a37153bd48d557e240075cd538111-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/182a37153bd48d557e240075cd538111-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/182a37153bd48d557e240075cd538111.jpg 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>State Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, center, speaks outside the Supreme Court of Virginia after arguments were heard in a redistricting-related case at the court in Richmond, Va., on Monday, April 27, 2026. (AP Photo\/Allen G. Breed)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Attorney Matthew Seligman, representing Democratic state legislators, speaks with the media.\" class=\"wp-image-83\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c0423d40f784ef7e80671397a250f1d-1024x768.webp\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c0423d40f784ef7e80671397a250f1d-1024x768.webp 1024w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c0423d40f784ef7e80671397a250f1d-300x225.webp 300w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c0423d40f784ef7e80671397a250f1d-768x576.webp 768w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c0423d40f784ef7e80671397a250f1d-1536x1152.webp 1536w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7c0423d40f784ef7e80671397a250f1d.webp 1859w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>Attorney Matthew Seligman, representing Democratic state legislators, speaks with the media following a hearing on new congressional maps before the state Supreme Court in Richmond, Va., on Monday, April 27, 2026. (AP Photo\/Allen G. Breed)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><li><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An election worker tears off \" class=\"wp-image-84\" during=\"\" height=\"682\" i=\"\" redistricting=\"\" referendum.\"=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7045799f2135781f9e605dd50f020b-1024x682.webp\" stickers=\"\" the=\"\" virginia=\"\" voted\"=\"\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7045799f2135781f9e605dd50f020b-1024x682.webp 1024w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7045799f2135781f9e605dd50f020b-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7045799f2135781f9e605dd50f020b-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7045799f2135781f9e605dd50f020b-1536x1023.webp 1536w, https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fb7045799f2135781f9e605dd50f020b.webp 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>An election worker tears off \u201cI Voted\u201d stickers during the Virginia redistricting referendum at Fairfax Government Center, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Fairfax, Va. (AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)\n<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/div><\/div><\/ul><div><button>Show Caption<\/button><div><span>1<\/span> of <span>3<\/span><\/div><div>State Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle, center, speaks outside the Supreme Court of Virginia after arguments were heard in a redistricting-related case at the court in Richmond, Va., on Monday, April 27, 2026. (AP Photo\/Allen G. Breed)\n<\/div><span>Expand<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<h4>A flurry of mid-decade redistricting<\/h4>\n<p>Legislative voting districts typically are redrawn once a decade after each census to account for population changes. But Trump started an unusual flurry of mid-decade redistricting last year when\u00a0he encouraged Republican officials\u00a0in Texas to redraw districts in a bid to win several additional U.S. House seats and hold on to their party\u2019s narrow majority in the midterm elections.<\/p> <div>\n<\/div>\n<p>California responded with\u00a0new voter-approved districts\u00a0drawn to Democrats\u2019 advantage, and Utah\u2019s top court imposed a new congressional map that also helps Democrats. Meanwhile, Republicans stand to gain from new House districts passed in Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and Tennessee. They could add even more after the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in the Voting Rights Act case, which has prompted\u00a0some other Republican states\u00a0to consider redrawing\u00a0their maps\u00a0in time for this year\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia currently is represented in the U.S. House by six Democrats and five Republicans who were elected from districts imposed by a court after a bipartisan redistricting commission failed to agree on a map after the 2020 census. The new districts could have given Democrats an improved chance to win all but one of the state\u2019s 11 congressional seats.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s majority was critical of the state\u2019s redrawing of the congressional maps to benefit one political party. Those justices noted that 47% of the state\u2019s voters supported GOP congressional candidates in 2024 but the new map could result in Democrats making up 91% of the state\u2019s House delegation.<\/p>\n<h4>What was in Democrats\u2019 map<\/h4>\n<p>Under the Democratic-drawn map, five districts would have been anchored in the Democratic stronghold of northern Virginia, including one stretching out like a lobster to consume Republican-leaning rural areas. Revisions to four other districts across Richmond, southern Virginia and Hampton Roads would have diluted the voting power of conservative blocs in those areas. And a reshaped district in parts of western Virginia would have lumped together three Democratic-leaning college towns to offset other Republican voters.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=78\">NCAR develops AI tools to improve severe weather forecasting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The state Supreme Court\u2019s seven justices are appointed by the state legislature, which has toggled back and forth between Democratic, Republican and split control over recent years. Legal experts say the body doesn\u2019t have a set ideological profile<\/p>\n<p>The case before the court focused not on the shape of the new districts but rather on the process the General Assembly used to authorize them.<\/p>\n<p>Because the state\u2019s redistricting commission was established by a voter-approved constitutional amendment, lawmakers had to propose an amendment to redraw the districts. That required approval of a resolution in two separate legislative sessions, with a state election sandwiched in between, to place the amendment on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The legislature\u2019s initial approval of the amendment occurred last October \u2014 while early voting was underway but before it concluded on the day of the general election. The legislature\u2019s\u00a0second vote on the amendment\u00a0occurred after a new legislative session began in January. Lawmakers also\u00a0approved a separate bill\u00a0in February laying out the new districts, subject to voter approval of the constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<h4>Arguments over the definition of \u2018election\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>Judicial arguments\u00a0focused on whether the legislature\u2019s initial approval of the amendment came too late, because early voting already had begun for the 2025 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Matthew Seligman, who defended the legislature, argued that the \u201celection\u201d should be defined narrowly to mean the Tuesday of the general election. In that case, the legislature\u2019s first vote on the redistricting amendment occurred before the election and was constitutional, he told judges.<\/p>\n<p>But, the Supreme Court said in its ruling, \u201cthis view appears to be wholly unprecedented in Virginia\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An attorney for the plaintiffs, Thomas McCarthy, argued that an \u201celection\u201d should be interpreted to cover the entire period during which people can cast ballots, which lasts several weeks in Virginia. If that\u2019s the case, he told justices, then the legislature\u2019s initial endorsement of the redistricting amendment came too late to comply with the state constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court agreed with that argument, writing: \u201cThe General Assembly passed the proposed constitutional amendment for the first time well after voters had begun casting ballots during the 2025 general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the time lawmakers initially endorsed the constitutional amendment, statewide voters already had cast more than 1.3 million ballots in the general election, about 40% of the total votes ultimately cast, the court said.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling affirms a decision by a judge in rural Tazewell County, in southwestern Virginia. The court had placed a hold on that ruling and allowed the redistricting vote to proceed before hearing arguments on the case.<\/p>\n<p>In the dissent to Friday\u2019s ruling, Chief Justice Cleo Powell said the election for the purpose of considering the amendment does not include the early voting period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority\u2019s definition creates an infinite voting loop that appears to have no established beginning,\u201d she wrote, \u201conly a definitive end: Election Day.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=76\">\u2018Gas station heroin\u2019 can be deadly, but it\u2019s just a mouse click away<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginia Supreme Court has struck down 4-3 a Democratic congressional redistricting plan that had won voter approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-politics","category-news","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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