{"id":2596188,"date":"2026-04-28T14:35:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-supreme-court-keeps-block-on-redistricting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T18:38:00","slug":"virginia-supreme-court-keeps-block-on-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-supreme-court-keeps-block-on-redistricting\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Supreme Court keeps block on redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-supreme-court-keeps-block-on-redistricting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2596188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh Virginia Supreme Court rejected a request to immediately resume certification of last week\u2019s referendum that would allow a new, Democrat-favoring congressional map, while the court continues to evaluate whether the referendum itself was legally conducted. A Tazewell County judge had previously blocked state officials from certifying the results after finding the process was rushed and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fulton-county-ga-elections-board-director-fired\/\" title=\"Fulton County, Ga. ...s board director fired\">violated state laws<\/a>, stopping efforts to implement the new map.<\/p>\n<p>Although the court\u2019s Tuesday decision wasn\u2019t a ruling on the merits,the same case remains open. The court could either uphold the referendum-potentially shifting Virginia\u2019s congressional delegation from a 6-5 Democratic tilt in the prior map to a 10-1 advantage-or overturn it and keep the existing map in place.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute is part of a broader national redistricting conflict, with multiple states adopting new maps in the mid-decade cycle based on partisan aims.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/state-courts\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3199\">Virginia Supreme Court<\/a> denied an effort on Tuesday to resume certification of last week\u2019s referendum to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/4537925\/virginia-redistricting-referendum-results\/\">enact a new congressional map<\/a> friendly to Democrats, as the Old Dominion\u2019s highest court continues to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544139\/virginia-redistrict-amendment-faces-tension-state-supreme-court\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544139\/virginia-redistrict-amendment-faces-tension-state-supreme-court\/\">weigh<\/a> the legality of the vote itself.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Tazewell County Circuit Court <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4539489\/virginia-redistricting-unconstitutional-court\/\">found<\/a> Democrats in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >state legislature violated multiple laws<\/a> in rushing the referendum to voters for an April election. The judge in the case barred state officials from certifying the election, halting efforts to enact the new congressional map. Virginia\u2019s Democratic attorney general, Jay Jones, urged the state Supreme Court to pause the lower court\u2019s order and allow certification of the election to resume, a request the commonwealth\u2019s high court denied on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4546002\/appeals-court-rejects-trump-migrant-detention-policy-creates-national-split\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Appeals court rejects Trump migrant detention policy, creating national split<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4546191\/james-comey-indicted-second-time-report\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>James Comey indicted for a second time: Report<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4546045\/gao-open-investigation-doj-epstein-files\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Congressional watchdog agrees to open investigation into DOJ handling of Epstein files<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The Tuesday order is not on the merits of the case challenging the vote, which the Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the day before. The court could still rule in favor of Democrats seeking to certify the referendum and enact a congressional map that would net Democrats up to four seats in the House of Representatives, or it could strike down the referendum, keeping the map used for the 2022 and 2024 elections in place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>If allowed to be enacted by the Virginia Supreme Court, the new congressional map will likely change the commonwealth\u2019s congressional delegation from a 6-5 split in favor of Democrats to 10-1, in a state that leaned only modestly toward 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris over President Donald Trump, 51.8%-46.1%. Voters narrowly approved the new congressional map in a special election last week by an even slimmer margin, 51.7%-48.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia Supreme Court did not indicate how it would rule during Monday\u2019s oral arguments, but several of the justices offered sharp questions for defenders of the redistricting amendment.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544139\/virginia-redistrict-amendment-faces-tension-state-supreme-court\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4544139\">VIRGINIA REDISTRICTING BALLOT AMENDMENT FACES TENSE QUESTIONING FROM STATE SUPREME COURT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virginia was the latest state to wade into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-senate-passes-gop-redistricting-maps-sending-to-abbott-for-final-approval\/\" title=\"Texas Senate passes GOP redistricting ..., sending to Abbott for final approval\">mid-decade redistricting war<\/a> with its hastily thrown-together referendum to suspend the bipartisan commission, which typically enacts a congressional map after a new census each decade, and enact a Democratic gerrymander of the Old Dominion. The commonwealth\u2019s decision to draw a new map comes after Texas, Missouri, Ohio, and North Carolina enacted new maps to add Republican seats, while California and Utah enacted new maps adding Democratic seats.<\/p>\n<p>Florida became the latest state to announce its intentions to create a new congressional map ahead of the midterm elections in November, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) unveiling a map that could net Republicans up to four House seats, effectively neutralizing the Democratic gains with Virginia\u2019s new map.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Supreme Court denied resuming certification of Democrats\u2019 referendum map<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2596189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26093828998169.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[36794,16985,32275,5468,32570],"class_list":["post-2596188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-legal-ruling","tag-redistricting","tag-supreme-court","tag-virginia","tag-voting-rights"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26093828998169.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596192,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596188\/revisions\/2596192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}