US EditionJudge finds Virginia Democrats’ redistricting resolution illegal
Judge Jack S. Hurley Jr. invalidated the amendment due to procedural violations, blocking a planned April referendum that could have allowed Democrats to redraw maps and gain seats.
- On Tuesday, Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack S. Hurley Jr. ruled a proposed constitutional amendment letting Democrats redraw congressional maps was illegal and declared it invalid and void.
- Hurley found that lawmakers failed to follow their own rules by adding the amendment during a special session and exceeded the session's scope, noting no intervening House of Delegates election because early voting had begun.
- Republican Senate Minority Leader Ryan McDougle sued in Tazewell County after lawmakers advanced the resolution in October less than a week before statewide races and passed it again earlier this month.
- The ruling prevents the legislature from holding the proposed public referendum, blocking the vote, while Virginians for Fair Elections and Virginia Democratic leadership said they intend to appeal, affecting Virginia's U.S. House delegation split of six Democrats and five Republicans.
- The decision comes amid nationwide mid-decade redistricting fights as State Democrats' late-2025 effort aims for new maps for the 2026 elections, but ongoing litigation leaves prospects uncertain.
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Judge Halts Virginia's Redistricting Maps
A Virginia court rejected a redistricting effort this week in a major blow to Democrats. Tazewell County Circuit Judge Jack Hurley Jr. wrote that the Democrat-dominated Virginia General Assembly did not follow the correct” procedures when passing the proposed amendment. In one procedural error, the “resolution was passed strictly along party lines” and was “not by unanimous vote as required under House Joint Resolution 6001, and it did not pass …
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newsontheneck.comNew congressional district lines for Virginia blocked by judge
(The Center Square) – New congressional district lines for Virginia being redrawn before the 2030 census through a proposed amendment has been blocked by a judge.
Virginia Judge SHUTS DOWN Democrats’ Power-Grab Redistricting Scheme — Rules Map CANNOT Go to Referendum Until After 2027 Election | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
In a stunning victory for election integrity and a humiliating defeat for the Virginia Democrat establishment, a circuit court judge has officially deadlocked the Left’s desperate attempt to rig the state’s congressional maps.
The battle for control of the U.S. Congress has found key ground in Maryland and Virginia, where legal and political maneuvers to redistribute electoral districts could redefine the power of the vote.While a judge in Virginia blocked Democratic attempts to modify the current map, in Maryland Governor Wes Moore seeks to weaken the state's last Republican bastion.These actions are part of a national struggle for districts in the middle of the cycl…
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