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JONATHAN TURLEY: Virginia Democrats' map scheme faces judgment at the high court

There is no question that this resolution shredded state law and tradition

By Jonathan Turley Fox News

Published April 26, 2026 8:00am EDT

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As Virginia heads to the state Supreme Court, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) will have to up his game a bit. For starters, he will have to actually defend the redistricting resolution as constitutional when prompted. In a recent interview with CNN, even the host of the friendly network expressed frustration that Jones could not seem to get himself to actually defend the dubious language of the ballot measure.

Many of us have expressed skepticism over the process and language of the resolution that passed this week, effectively wiping out all but one GOP district in the purple state.

Virginia was considered the gold standard among states rejecting gerrymandering with fairly divided districts in a state that is divided right down the middle. It then elected Governor Abigail Spanberger, who assured voters that she was adamantly against gerrymandering and then immediately called for the most radical gerrymandered map in the nation after she was elected.

The candidate who declared that "opposing gerrymandering should be a bipartisan priority" rushed a resolution to the voters that would have made Eldridge Gerry himself blush.

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That map passed by a slim margin as Democrats moved to wipe out the representation of half of their neighbors, leaving Republicans with just one of 11 districts.

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