Virginia Officials Ask Supreme Court to Revive Congressional Map That Favors Democrats

The Virginia Supreme Court last week invalidated a redrawn U.S. House map that aims to flip four Republican seats to Democrats.

The Supreme Court in Washington on April 28, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times

Virginia Democrats asked the U.S. Supreme Court on May 11 to block a Virginia Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the state’s voter-approved congressional map that gave Democrats a massive advantage.

“A stay is warranted because the decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia is deeply mistaken on two critical issues of federal law with profound practical importance to the Nation,” Don Scott, speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, wrote in the filing.