Supreme Court Rejects Virginia Democrats’ Effort to Reinstate New Voting Map
State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.

Virginia Republican leaders urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to deny a long-shot petition filed by Democrats from the commonwealth to revive the voter-approved Democratic gerrymander of Virginia’s congressional map. The brief from GOP leaders in the Old Dominion comes days after Virginia Democrats filed an emergency petition to the U.S. Supreme Court,…
State officials had asked the justices to step in to allow the state to use a congressional map in the midterms that was drawn by Democrats and recently approved by voters.
The decision leaves in place a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that concluded the process leading up to a referendum approving a new congressional map was flawed.
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a bid by Virginia Democrats to revive its new voter-approved congressional map that was drawn to advantage the party for the upcoming midterm elections.