{"id":73234,"date":"2026-05-08T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/virginia-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-congressional-maps-in-win-for-republicans\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:59:29","slug":"virginia-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-congressional-maps-in-win-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/virginia-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-congressional-maps-in-win-for-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia supreme court strikes down new congressional maps in win for Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maps, recently approved by voters, would have helped Democrats gain up to four new seats in US House<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/virginia\">Virginia<\/a>\u2019s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win ahead of November\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-midterm-elections-2026\">midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The court found that the state\u2019s general assembly did not follow the appropriate procedure in approving the maps, which voters then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/21\/virginia-congressional-maps\">passed<\/a> in a referendum last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/08\/virginia-supreme-court-rules-against-congressional-maps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps, recently approved by voters, would have helped Democrats gain up to four new seats in US House Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Virginia\u2019s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four new seats in &#8230; <a title=\"Virginia supreme court strikes down new congressional maps in win for Republicans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/08\/virginia-supreme-court-strikes-down-new-congressional-maps-in-win-for-republicans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Virginia supreme court strikes down new congressional maps in win for Republicans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}