‘Battle isn’t over yet’: Experts warn Virginia’s biased redistricting violates state constitution

Voters in Virginia, by the narrowest of margins, adopted a “fairness” plan that will redistrict their voters and, if it’s not overturned in court, likely will give the Democrats a huge electoral advantage there.

The vote Tuesday immediately was mocked by publications including Not the Bee, which charged, “Democracy! 51% of Virginia decides the other 49% only gets 9% of state’s representation in Congress.”

That’s because the districts, which had been divided 6-5 in favor of the Democrats, now could end up 10-1 for that political persuasion. Democrats accomplish that by gerrymandering the districts so they look like spiders spread across the countryside.

Further, the “fairness” claim actually, inexplicably and inaccurately, was in the text of the constitutional amendment, presented by Democrats, whose allegation was that it would only be fair in the state for the 49% who oppose them get only 9% of the representation. That ballot stated, “Should the Constitution of Virginia be amended to allow the General Assembly to temporarily adopt new congressional distrticts to restore fairness in the upcoming elections…”

But the entire vote was held despite court challenges, and therein may be the downfall of the scheme to manipulate the state’s representation in Congress.

A report at the Federalist explained, “Democrats and their well-heeled funders have won their rigged referendum to rig Virginia’s congressional maps, but the political boundary battle isn’t over yet.”

“Now come the court challenges, and that’s where the redistricting revisionists could lose their big win thanks to their unabashed manipulation of Virginia law.”

Jason Snead of Honest Elections Project, confirmed to the publication the Democrats have gone illegal “for a number of reasons.”

His group is involved in one of multiple lawsuits that were pending even as the courts allowed the election to move forward. The vote killed a previous amendment that established an independent commission charged with drawing districts, and gave “the Democrat-controlled legislature the authority to put in place its drunkenly partisan congressional maps redrawn mid-decade to grab more House seats in November’s midterms.”

Charles Blahous, of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, told the publication the federal Constitution was not written to protect political parties.

In this situation, the problem is, he said, the “absurd” contortion of the Democrats’ maps.

“Virginia’s constitution is quite explicit in its language requiring electoral districts to be ‘contiguous and compact.’ One look will tell you the maps don’t fit the bill,” the report said.

Regarding compactness, based on the concept a voter should be able to vote in a district with people who live nearby, Blahous said the Democrats’ maps miss the mark by a mile.

The legal actions already brought by the Republican National Committee, Virginia GOP and Virginia voters themselves, raises that problem and others.

That legal filing charges, “The plan splits Northern Virginia five ways and bizarrely stretches these districts hundreds of miles into the Shenandoah Valley, central Virginia, and Tidewater. That ensures that voices of downstate Virginians are cancelled by the DC suburbs — Washingtonians sending Washingtonians to Washington.”

Further the courts have been told that lawmakers illegally extended a “special session” of the legislature to adopt the Democrats’ agenda.

Under Virginia’s constitution, such amendment proposals must pass in two sessions of the legislature — with an intervening election. But in this case a special session began in 2024 and was extended in 2025 before Democrats added their redistricting plan to a session about the budget.

It was the state Supreme Court that allowed the election even though the agenda continues to face a long list of serious legal hurdles.

Snead said, “The Supreme Court of Virginia is going to have a chance to reject these maps, not for political or partisan reasons, but because the constitution and the laws of the state spell out how this is supposed to be done. Nobody gets to just brush those aside in the name of trying to amend the constitution for political power.”

WATCH: Even CNN is admitting how insane the Virginia gerrymander is….

“And just take a look at how this map is structured. What they do is they’ve taken the heavily Democratic areas in the northern area of Virginia, and they’ve created five separate districts that basically… pic.twitter.com/pA7nvlnaWL

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 21, 2026

Dems will now control 90% of districts in a state they only won by 5%

For the sake of “fairness” pic.twitter.com/gDgYrtr1vf

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 22, 2026

51% of Virginia told 49% they only deserve 9% of the Congressional Districts.
Congratulations to Democrats Against Democracy. pic.twitter.com/xv4skL3rJi

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) April 22, 2026

Virginia passes ‘egregiously’ gerrymandered redistricting map favoring Democrats