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The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday rejected the state\u2019s mid-decade redistricting effort, which was passed by referendum last month and would overwhelmingly benefit Democrats.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The state spent $5.2 million to pay for the special election to ask voters to approve the map, which would have created ten districts that favor Democrats, with just one district favoring Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n

The new map was designed to allow Democrats to pick up as many as four seats in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n

But after the Republican National Committee challenged the new map in court, judges for the state\u2019s supreme court found that the legislature made procedural errors in how it placed the question on the ballot last month. The court\u2019s majority found that the legislature violated the multi-step process for putting constitutional amendments on the ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy,\u201d the judges wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void,\u201d the majority added.<\/p>\n

The court ordered the state to use the same congressional district map in the upcoming midterm elections as it used in 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats just learned that when you try to rig elections, you lose,\u201d RNC Chairman Joe Gruters said in a statement.\u00a0\u201cToday, the Virginia Supreme Court sided with the rule of law and struck down Democrats\u2019 unconstitutional maps. The RNC led the charge in court against this blatant power grab, where Virginia Democrats poured more than $66 million into an effort to lock in control and silence voters. We took them to court, and we won\u201d<\/p>\n

Virginia House Speaker Don Scott issued a statement on Friday saying, \u201cWe\u00a0respect the decision of the Supreme Court of Virginia.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud that Virginians came out in historic numbers, made their voices heard, and sent a message not just here at home \u2014 but across the country \u2014 to Donald Trump and his administration,\u201d Scott added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree million people voted in a free and fair election. We gave this decision to the voters \u2014 exactly where it belongs\u2014 and they spoke loud and clear. They voted YES because they wanted to fight back against the Trump power grab,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe respect the court. But we will keep fighting for a democracy where voters \u2014 not politicians \u2014 have the final say. Because in Virginia, power still belongs to the people,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

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Virginia was one of at least eight states to approve a new map as part of a tit-for-tat redistricting battle between the parties that began\u00a0when Texas advanced a map favoring Republicans last year. Both parties are looking to gain an edge in the November midterms to keep or gain control of the closely divided House.<\/p>\n

Other states that have approved new maps include Texas, North Carolina, Missouri, Ohio, Utah, California, and Florida. Lawmakers in Indiana and Maryland rejected new map proposals that would have favored Republicans and Democrats, respectively.<\/p>\n

The Virginia ruling means Republicans\u2019 redistricting efforts have netted an extra 10 favorable seats over Democrats, according to NPR\u2019s count.<\/p>\n

The referendum-passed constitutional amendment in Virginia would have temporarily bypassed the state\u2019s bipartisan redistricting commission to implement a new congressional map until 2030, when mapmaking responsibilities would return to the commission.<\/p>\n

Democrats in Virginia successfully won a\u00a0trifecta of governmental control last November, taking over the governor\u2019s mansion and both chambers of the state legislature.<\/p>\n

Throughout the campaign, Republicans called out Democrats for pushing a measure to bypass the bipartisan redistricting commission, which voters approved just six years ago by an almost two-to-one margin.<\/p>\n

Nearly $100 million was spent campaigning on the measure. Just one month ago, Virginians for Fair Elections, the pro-referendum group, had spent 17 times more than Virginians for Fair Maps on ads. By Monday, the pro-referendum group had only spent three times as much.<\/p>\n

Democrats, for their part, argued that they were giving their party a fighting chance after Republicans moved to gerrymander districts in several other states.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s decision comes days after federal authorities searched the office of Virginia state Senate Leader L. Louise Lucas (D), a main architect of the state\u2019s redistricting proposal. Authorities also searched a nearby cannabis dispensary that she co-owns. Sources told the Associated Press the investigation was corruption-related and was opened under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

Lucas, for her part, has dismissed the investigation as politically motivated.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday\u2019s actions by Federal agents are about far more than one state senator; they are about power and who is allowed to use it on behalf of the people,\u201d Lucas said\u00a0in a statement on X.<\/p>\n

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