Supreme Court is death knell for Virginia's Democratic-friendly congressional maps ^9.5%

NPR - By Nina Totenberg, Zoe Sobel - 5/15/2026, 10:58 PM

Negativity Bias 26.6% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 22.8% - Framing Effect 17%

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Friday to allow Virginia to use a new congressional map that favored Democrats in all but one of the state's U.S. House seats. The map was a key part of Democrats' effort to counter the Republican redistricting wave set off by President Trump. The new map was drawn by Democrats and approved by Virginia... more