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Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Congressional Map, Ruling Democrats Violated Ballot Procedure
The court overturned a special election that would have created four additional Democratic-friendly congressional districts, ruling Democrats failed to follow proper ballot procedures. The decision comes days after the U.S. Supreme Court limited the use of race in drawing district lines, overturning Louisiana’s map and triggering a wave of Republican-led redistricting efforts across multiple…
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The Virginia Supreme Court on May 8, 2026, issued a ruling blocking a new congressional map, overturning the results of a special election that would have led to a new map with four additional Democratic-friendly districts. The court ruled that Democrats did not follow the proper procedure in placing the constitutional amendment on the ballot.
Democrats’ plan to redraw Virginia’s congressional map was narrowly approved by voters two and a half weeks before May 8, 2026.
U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that states can almost never consider race when drawing district lines. U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturned Louisiana’s congressional map.
U.S. Supreme Court said its ruling on Louisiana’s map could go into effect immediately at the beginning of the week of May 4, 2026. Later that day, Florida’s Republican-led Legislature gave final approval to a redrawn congressional map designed to allow Republicans to pick up as many as four House seats.
Republican officials moved to delay Louisiana’s House primaries scheduled for May 16. On Thursday, May 7, 2026, Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Legislature passed a redrawn map that carves up the state’s only majority-Black district represented by Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen.
Republican state lawmakers in South Carolina left the door open this week to a redraw of the state’s current congressional map which has one district held by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn. Alabama Gov.
