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Virginia’s Spanberger fumes after Supreme Court declines to reinstate new map

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) criticized the Supreme Court on Friday for refusing to reinstate Virginia’s new voter-approved congressional map after the state supreme court rejected the measure.

“The United States Supreme Court joined the Virginia Supreme Court in choosing to invalidate an election and the votes of more than three million Virginians,” Spanberger said. social platform. “These Virginians made their voices heard; voters voted in good faith against a President who said before going to the polls that he had the ‘right’ to get more seats in Congress.”

The justices refused to block Virginia’s high court’s split decision that Democrats failed to follow proper procedures in sending the redistricting proposal to voters. Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal Monday, insisting their state’s Supreme Court “defied judgment” by blocking the map last week.

No dissent was noted in the judges’ decision.

The Virginia Supreme Court’s 4-3 decision eliminated the opportunity for Democrats to elect four Houses in the Old Dominion in the midterm elections. That gives Republicans a chance to net six to seven seats they would otherwise lose, according to Cook Political Report analysis.

on it personal X profileSpanberger later shared an ActBlue link for voters to donate to Democratic congressional campaigns in Virginia.

The governor said Thursday that Virginia would continue with its old congressional map, citing a May 12 deadline for any changes. WTOP reported.

The decision left many Virginia Democrats in shock as it was one of the party’s latest attempts to redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterm elections to give them a better chance of taking back control of the House from Republicans. President Trump last year ordered Republican-controlled states to redraw their maps to keep the GOP’s grip on Congress intact.

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) called the Supreme Court’s response “yet another deeply disturbing example of the ongoing national assault on voting rights and the rule of law by Donald Trump, Republican state legislatures, and conservative courts.” He added: an X postIt left in place the Virginia Supreme Court’s “deeply flawed” decision.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam and State Del. Other Virginia Democrats, including Elizabeth Guzman, also criticized the Supreme Court’s rejection of the new map. Subramanyam said will ensure “Virginians remember this November” before heading to the polls.

Guzman was one of several Democratic candidates who suspended their campaigns depending on the outcome of the redistricting vote. He said expression He said he was disappointed but hoped other candidates would “fight for and deliver for a Virginia that works for EVERYONE.”

Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) said last Sunday that “all options” are on the table for Democrats to respond to the state supreme court’s decision. He noted that the state General Assembly will look at implementing the new map through constitutional amendment, but that he is focused on the “political struggle.”

“This November, I’m focused on making sure that no matter what the final map looks like, we get as many of these seats in Virginia as possible and fight back against what the Jim Crow South did to dilute Black voters and eliminate Black representation so they can get a Republican Congress because they know the only way they can win is to rig these maps and not on the merits of their ideas and their actions,” he said on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”

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