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Virginia’s Democratic attorney general, Jay Jones, said Friday night that he would redouble efforts to campaign on behalf of Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections following the US Supreme Court’s rejection of a request to restore a voter-approved congressional map.

Following the high court’s one-sentence denial of Democratic state officials’ petition for emergency relief, which they had filed to block the state Supreme Court’s ruling against a congressional map that passed via ballot measure last month, Jones said he would be “working tirelessly to support our Democratic candidates so we can win control of the House in spite of Republicans putting their thumbs on the scale.”

With no dissents noted, the Supreme Court said Friday evening that it was denying the request to block the Virginia high court’s ruling that had tossed out last month’s redistricting referendum.

BREAKING: SCOTUS denies Virginia Democrats' request to block the Virginia Supreme Court ruling tossing out the redistricting referendum. There are no noted dissents and no opinion.— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2026-05-15T22:35:55.226Z

BREAKING: SCOTUS denies Virginia Democrats' request to block the Virginia Supreme Court ruling tossing out the redistricting referendum. There are no noted dissents and no opinion.

The decision “leaves in place the deeply flawed ruling from the Supreme Court of Virginia, which overturned the results of a lawful election and erased the will of millions of Virginia voters,” said Jones.

It also served as “yet another profoundly troubling example of the continued national........

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