US EditionJudge finds Virginia Democrats’ redistricting resolution illegal
Judge Hurley ruled the amendment invalid due to procedural violations, halting the April referendum that aimed to allow Democrats to redraw congressional districts.
- 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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