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Republicans are cheering a circuit court victory in Virginia that showed Democrats’ redistricting efforts in Virginia are not quite over yet despite a referendum to accept a new map drawn by Democrats getting approved by voters on Tuesday.
Virginia Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley ruled Wednesday, one day after the Democrat redistricting referendum passed, that all votes for or against the proposed redistricting amendment were unconstitutional, citing rules that impose certain requirements that the referendum did not meet. There are currently a handful of cases making their way through the Virginia court system challenging various aspects of the referendum, including the one Hurley ruled on Wednesday.
“The Tazewell Circuit Court just ruled the referendum unconstitutional. The Judge entered an injunction blocking certification of the election & denied a motion to stay pending appeal. A final order will be entered once drafted, & it will be immediately appealed,” former Republican Attorney General of Virginia, Ken Cuccinelli, said on X following Hurley’s ruling. Shortly after the ruling came down, Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, a Democrat who beat GOP incumbent Jason Miyares in November, indicated his office will indeed “immediately file an appeal.”
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Cuccinelli, who currently heads the American Principles Project Election Transparency Initiative, indicated Wednesday that there are currently four constitutional challenges to the referendum making their way through the courts, three of which are challenges to the amendment process itself.
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“Virginia has a process to amend its constitution that has the General Assembly pass a…
