Much surprised and worthy of a bit of new found respect for the VA S. St.

• Stunning

Supreme Court rejects Virginia Democrats’ last-ditch bid to force new map
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, May 15, 2026

Democrats hoped to gain four additional House seats in the election.

Virginia's Supreme Court ruled Democrats violated the Constitution with their referendum.

The U.S. Supreme Court has turned aside Virginia Democrats’ long-shot attempt to overturn state courts and force the use of their preferred congressional district map in November’s elections. The justices rejected Attorney General Jay Jones’ request without comment, and no justices signaled any dissent.

That outcome was expected, but it is still devastating for Democrats who’d been counting on Virginia to deliver them as many as four extra U.S. House seats in the election.

Virginia’s Supreme Court had ruled that Democrats who controlled the legislature violated the Constitution with a referendum trying to overturn the old maps. Referendums must pass the legislature twice, with an intervening election, before being put to voters, and the state Supreme Court said lawmakers didn’t allow for a full election in between.

Mr. Jones had argued to the federal justices that the state court had stretched the definition of Election Day too far.

But his attempt to get the U.S. justices to intervene had a number of hurdles, including that the matter was one of state law and interpretation.

The calendar had also worked against him, with election officials saying they needed to have final maps done by earlier this week.

Not even a peep from uber Marxist KB Jackson.

Still, the VA leftists will correct their mistakes and push this through before the 28 elections.

This has been a costly move for Spamburger. She has lost the support of many independents and even some moderate Dem's based on recent polling. If this had not been overturned, almost half of Virginia's voters would have lost representation in the House.

Owebama continues to pad his growing rep as a loser advocate for candidates and now this referendum. The Dems spent $70 million on advertising, and we had to put up with regular ads of ole Barry and his pretentious and condescending lecturing about "fair elections." I cannot remember another ex-Prez in my lifetime who got so publicly involved in politics after leaving office. His Karma is to become irrelevant.