President and his party celebrate as Democrats vow to fight Virginia court ruling barring state from enacting new voter-approved congressional maps \u2013 key US politics stories from 8 May 2026 at a glance<\/p>\n
Virginia<\/a>\u2019s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats<\/a> gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win before November\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a 4-3 decision, the court found that the state\u2019s general assembly did not follow the appropriate constitutional procedure in approving the map, which voters then passed<\/a> in a referendum last month.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President and his party celebrate as Democrats vow to fight Virginia court ruling barring state from enacting new voter-approved congressional maps \u2013 key US politics stories from 8 May 2026 at a glance Virginia\u2019s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as … 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-73257","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\/73257","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=73257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}