Legal Earthquake in Virginia Shakes Democrats at Highest Levels
Don Palmer
• May 8, 2026
An earthquake occurred today in the Commonwealth of Virginia that was felt at the highest levels of power in the U.S. House of Representatives, particularly shaking the minority leader of the House of Representatives, Hakeem Jeffries. On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court rejected the unconstitutional push by the Democrat majority in the Virginia General Assembly.
The Virginia high court voided the proposed constitutional amendment and “temporary” partisan gerrymandering by Democrats that would break up the current congressional district map from its current representation of six Democrat and five Republican congressional seats to 10 Democrat and one Republican to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia in the U.S. House.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled that “the legislative process employed to advance the proposal” violated the state constitution and the integrity of the referendum vote, which “incurably taints” the referendum. As a result, the Virginia Supreme Court directed that the district maps issued by the court in 2021 after a partisan deadlock remain in place for the upcoming congressional elections until 2030.
The author of the opinion, Justice D. Arthur Kelsey, noted that “under the proposed new map approximately 47% of Virginians that voted for representatives of one of the major political parties in the last congressional election would now be represented by 9% of Virginia’s delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives — while the approximately 51% of Virginians that voted for the other major political party would now be represented by 91% of Virginia’s congressional delegation.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/08/virginia-shakes-democrats/
