Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) on Friday blasted the Supreme Court for declining to reinstate Virginia’s new congressional map approved by voters after the state’s high court struck down the measure.

“The Supreme Court of the United States has now joined the Supreme Court of Virginia in choosing to nullify an election and the votes of more than three million Virginians,” Spanberger fumed on the social platform X. “These Virginians made their voices heard — casting their ballots in good faith to push back against a President who said he’s ‘entitled’ to more seats in Congress before voters go to the polls.”

The justices declined to block a split decision from Virginia’s top court that Democrats did not follow the proper procedures by sending the redistricting proposal to voters. Virginia Democrats filed an emergency appeal on Monday, insisting that their state’s Supreme Court committed “judicial defiance” by blocking the map last week.

No dissents were noted in the justices’ decision.

The 4-3 ruling by Virginia’s Supreme Court eliminated four House pickup opportunities in the Old Dominion for Democrats in the midterm elections. This gives Republicans a shot at netting between six and seven seats that they would have otherwise lost, according to analysis by the Cook Political Report.

On her personal X profile, Spanberger later shared an ActBlue link for voters to donate to Democratic congressional campaigns in Virginia.

The governor had said on Thursday that Virginia would move ahead with its old congressional map, citing the May 12 deadline for any changes, WTOP reported.

The ruling left many Virginia Democrats shell-shocked, as it was one of the party’s last attempts to redraw congressional maps ahead of the midterms in order to give itself a better chance of reclaiming control of the House from Republicans. President Trump last year directed Republican-controlled states to redraw their maps in order to keep the GOP hold on Congress intact.

Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (D) called the Supreme Court’s response “yet another profoundly troubling example of the continued national attack on voting rights and the rule of law by Donald Trump, Republican state legislatures, and conservative courts.” He added, in an X post, that it left the Virginia Supreme Court’s “deeply flawed” ruling in place.

Other Virginia Democrats, including Rep. Suhas Subramanyam and state Del. Elizabeth Guzman, also lambasted the Supreme Court’s rejection of the new map. Subramanyam said he will ensure that “Virginians remember this November” before going to the polls.

Guzman was one of multiple Democratic candidates to suspend their campaigns that were depending on the outcome of the redistricting vote. She said in a statement that she was disappointed but that she hopes other candidates will “fight and deliver for a Virginia that works for ALL.”

Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va.) last Sunday said “all options” remain on the table for Democrats to respond to the state high court’s ruling. She noted that the state’s General Assembly would look at implementing the new map via a constitutional amendment, but that she was focused on the “political fight.”

“I am focused on making sure that this November we pick up as many of these seats in Virginia as possible, no matter what the ultimate map looks like, and that we fight against what the Jim Crow South is doing to dilute Black voters and eliminate Black representation so that they can get a Republican Congress, because they know the only way they can win is not on the merits of their ideas and actions, but by rigging these maps,” she said on NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”

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