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Virginia Is No Longer a Map Fight. It Is a Legitimacy Fight.

While Democrats want Americans to believe the Virginia redistricting fight is a minor technical dispute over maps, ballot language, and procedure, it is much more than that. Virginia is the test case for whether Democrats can redraw the political battlefield before the midterms while surviving legal challenges and calling it democracy.

To be clear, the state’s redistricting referendum passed by a narrow margin of roughly 51% to 49%, allowing a map which would change Virginia’s current 6-5 Democratic congressional split to a 10-1 Democratic advantage. This is a massive attempt to load the battlefield in the House before the midterm elections.

This case is now tied up in court battles, making it politically explosive. A Virginia circuit court blocked certification of the referendum, and the Virginia Supreme Court later allowed that block to remain in place for now. On appeal to the Virginia high court, the justices heard arguments on Monday, April 27, on whether the redistricting measure can stand. The court focused on whether Democrats complied with the Virginia Constitution’s procedural requirements for advancing the referendum.

Republicans had argued that Democrats used a special session originally called for another........

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