{"id":22806,"date":"2026-05-16T05:22:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/supreme-court-declines-to-restore-virginia-democrats-congressional-map\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:22:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:22:25","slug":"supreme-court-declines-to-restore-virginia-democrats-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/supreme-court-declines-to-restore-virginia-democrats-congressional-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court declines to restore Virginia Democrats\u2019 congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court refused Virginia Democratic leaders&rsquo; emergency plea to reinstate theircongressional map on Friday in what would&rsquo;ve been one of the party&rsquo;s best opportunities to keep pace in the mid-decade redistricting war. Without any noted dissents, the justices declined to block a split decision from Virginia&rsquo;s topcourt that Democrats didn&rsquo;t follow the proper procedures&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5880850-supreme-court-rejects-virginia-congressional-map\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court refused Virginia Democratic leaders&rsquo; emergency plea to reinstate theircongressional map on Friday in what would&rsquo;ve been one of the party&rsquo;s best opportunities to keep pace in the mid-decade redistricting war. Without any noted dissents, the justices declined to block a split decision from Virginia&rsquo;s topcourt that Democrats didn&rsquo;t follow the proper procedures&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}