{"id":57105,"date":"2026-05-11T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=57105"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:32:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:32:02","slug":"virginia-democrats-ask-supreme-court-to-allow-use-of-new-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=57105","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Democrats ask Supreme Court to allow use of new congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Virginia Democrats on Monday filed a last-ditch request to the Supreme Court seeking to revive a recent voter-approved congressional district map for the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The move came after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled last week that the process that led to a referendum in which voters approved the plan was legally flawed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The new map, intended to maximize Democratic-leaning congressional districts, was proposed as part of nationwide redistricting wars that were sparked when President Donald Trump called upon Texas to draw a map more favorable to Republicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In the new filing on behalf of Democratic state lawmakers, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones said that the state court \u201coverrode the will of the people\u201d by focusing on a technical interpretation of what process was required under state law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The U.S. Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction over issues of state law, but in the new filing Jones said the Virginia Supreme Court\u2019s decision also violated federal law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/supreme-court\/virginia-democrats-ask-justices-allow-use-new-congressional-map-rcna344622\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Virginia Democrats on Monday filed a last-ditch request to the Supreme Court seeking to revive a recent voter-approved congressional district map for the state. The move came after the Virginia Supreme Court ruled last week that the process that led to a referendum in which voters approved the plan was legally flawed. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":57106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37304,6204,4174,1514],"class_list":["post-57105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-congressional-district-maps","tag-democratic-party","tag-supreme-court","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57107,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57105\/revisions\/57107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}