of figured this would happen. Yeah SCOTUS told them to go pound sand. I don’t know why anyone would think that the SCOTUS would involve itself in whatever a STATE court said about a STATE rules issue. And they didn’t.
There were no civil rights involved! I mean, DUH! Spanberger and her posse violated the requirements of the STATE law. There simply was no Federal issue in play.
The Supreme Court rejected Virginia Democrats’ emergency appeal to revive their gerrymandered Virginia congressional map on Friday, delivering a final, fatal blow to their efforts in the state. The justices issued a brief order with no explanation. Still, the outcome was hardly surprising — the federal courts don’t typically wade into rulings made by state courts on state constitutional matters, and that’s exactly what happened here.
It was a last-ditch try, and even VA Democrats didn’t expect it to succeed.
The attempt to appeal to the United States Supreme Court was a desperate Hail Mary bound to fail, and even Gov. Abigail Spanberger saw the writing on the wall and revealed she was no longer pushing to gerrymander the state.
… Democrats have now lost on multiple fronts simultaneously, and they’ve spent — I mean, wasted — millions of dollars in the process.
Republicans are now expected to net roughly a dozen congressional seats from redistricting alone ahead of the 2026 midterms, with Tennessee and Florida among the states contributing to those gains.