[HotAir] With this decision, Hakeem Jeffries' end zone dance has definitely turned into a safety. Democrats will get a four-seat pickup from California,but that's it. Democrats are looking at a net negative swing that may creep into double digits. The Virginia state supreme court struck down the referendum that Democrats slammed through their primary election. The irregularities in the process were so profound that it renders the vote result "null and void":
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.
The court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade redistricting. Voters narrowly approved the amendment April 21, but the court’s ruling renders the results of that vote meaningless.
“This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void,” the court said in its opinion.
There were many reasons to throw this out, but the necessity of having a full election intervening between the proposal and a referendum became the hinge for the 4-3 decision. The Commonwealth argued that the 2025 election counted because the legislature approved it before Election Day, but the majority scoffed at the idea that 1.3 million early voters had not participated in an election: