Courts Block Virginia Referendum Result — Here’s Why It Spanberger’s Redistricting Might Fail

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The Dems had already started gloating over the narrow election victory for redistricting Virginia when the first court filed an injunction to block the result.

The referendum has to run its course before the courts can intervene. But now that the votes have been counted, both sides are making their case in court.

While many Conservatives have low confidence about a Virginia court ruling in their favor, Ken Cuccinelli, who has served as AG for Virginia went on Scott Jennings’ show to make the case for why he thinks courts will strike it down for clear violations of Virginia’s constitution.

There are specific safeguards in place to prevent the kind of railroading of the public that we’ve seen in this redistricting case — which ran exactly opposite to the no-redistricting platform on which Spanberger actually campaigned. The safeguards of Virginia’s state constitution were NOT followed in this instance.

Here he is explaining in what way the safeguards were not followed and why he thinks the courts will strike down this referendum as constitutionally invalid.

For what it’s worth, the wording of the court injunction lines up pretty well with the language Cuccinelli used to make his case on the show:

Here are screenshots of the portions of the ruling cited in that tweet:

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Image one details four (4) separate reasons why this process was irregular and in violation of the norms and standards that would need to apply to any referendum before it could have the force of law… and the referendum (together with its results) are therefore null and void.

That last one on the page ending in ‘flagrantly’ is describing ‘flagrantly misleading language’ of the ballot question itself.

Permanent injuctive relief… enjoins defendants and successors from taking any action to certify the results or revive the amendment through alterations.

If this ruling were to hold up to future challenges that would be the end of the 2026 redistricting efforts in Virginia. You can read the court’s full statement here.

Other states, however, are still mulling it over.

Florida, for instance…

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