President Donald Trump called the decision a “huge win for the Republican Party” in a post on Truth Social on Friday.
The ruling in Virginia follows another setback for Democrats ahead of the midterms, when the U.S. Supreme Court last week hollowed a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, taking electoral power away from minority voters, especially in Southern states.
Trump sparked the redistricting battle last summer, when he called on Republican-led states to redraw their maps mid-decade. Traditionally, House district maps are redrawn every ten years, falling in line with the release of census data to adjust for population changes and migration.
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More than three million Virginians cast ballots in the April 21 referendum on redrawing the state’s congressional map, with the measure passing by a narrow margin after roughly 1.6 million voters backed it and 1.5 million opposed it. The result was viewed as a major win for Democrats.
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Tram Nguyen, the co-executive director of the voting and civic rights organization the New Virginia Majority, calls the court’s decision “deeply troubling.”
Following Friday’s decision, House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York said in a statement that “the decision to overturn an entire election is an unprecedented and undemocratic action that cannot stand,” adding that lawmakers were exploring options to overturn the decision.
New parameters for state election periods
“This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void,” Kelsey wrote.
According to Virginia’s constitution, the state legislature must pass referendums twice, with an election in between. However, when the legislature first passed the amendment, early voting had already begun, which the court argued was during the election period and therefore in violation of constitutional procedure.
In the court’s dissenting opinion, Chief Justice Cleo Powell argued that the ruling “broadened the meaning of the word ‘election,’ as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election.”
A blow to Democrats in Tennessee
On Thursday, the Republican-led legislature in Tennessee passed an altered voting map that splices up Memphis, the state’s only majority-Black district and Democratic seat.
“The Supreme Court has opined that redistricting, like the judicial system, should be color-blind,” said Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton on social media on Wednesday. “The decision indicated states can redistrict based off partisan politics. Today, Tennessee joins other red and blue states in redrawing their congressional maps.”
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