Posted on 10/24/2025 5:06:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The plan follows Republicans in Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina who have redrawn congressional maps to help the GOP gain more House seats in next year's midterms.
Virginia Democrats are planning to attempt to redistrict the commonwealth's congressional maps to help their party ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Don Scott, the leader of the state's Democrat-controlled House, wrote in a letter to colleagues Thursday stating the chamber will reopen an existing special legislative session Monday afternoon, NBC News reported. Legislators are expected to use the session to start the effort to draw new maps.
In Virginia, only the governor can convene a special session. However, Scott's letter shows that Virginia Democrats, who control narrow majorities in both legislative chambers, are using a loophole by reopening a special legislative session that was convened in May 2024 but never technically concluded.
"The House will meet to consider matters properly before the ongoing 2024 Special Session I and any related business laid before the body, in accordance with the Constitution, statutes, as the Rules of the House," Scott said.
The Virginia Democrats' plan follows Republicans in Texas, Missouri, and North Carolina who have redrawn congressional maps at President Trump's urging to help the GOP gain more seats in the House of Representatives next year.
Virginia is following California, where state Democratic leaders called a Nov. 4 special election to let voters decide whether to approve a new congressional map that could net the party up to five additional seats. In Virginia, Democrats currently hold seats in six of 11 congressional districts.
Similar to California, Virginia has a redistricting commission written into the commonwealth's Constitution, which Democratic lawmakers will need to go around to redraw the congressional maps.
To amend Virginia's Constitution, both legislative chambers must approve a measure twice, with a general state House election occurring between...
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Increasing power in Washington at the expense of the state.
At best, it would mean about 1 or 2 seats. The Virginia democrats have already gerrymandered the state to maximize safe democrat seats. That’s why they modified the constitution back when they had all three branches of government.
Democrats show once again how much they hate democracy. The people voted in a referendum to amend the state constitution to have a commission draw legislative districts, a democrat proposal. Dems want to steal that away in an illegal session. Why do people vote for these crooks?
Democrats show once again how much they hate democracy. The people voted in a referendum to amend the state constitution to have a commission draw legislative districts, a democrat proposal. Dems want to steal that away in an illegal session. Why do people vote for these crooks?
“he Virginia democrats have already gerrymandered the state to maximize safe democrat seats.”
Not sure what this is supposed to mean, but Virginia Democrats had nothing to do directly with the current district maps (congressional and state) because they were created by a supposedly independent commission.
The state-level maps are pretty well gerrymandered to favor Democrats and the GOP has done well to even come close in the state Senate and state House (they are VERY close in both cases).
At the congressional level, they have not maxed out anything. There are 2 Democrat seats (CD-7, CD-10) which are either somewhat marginal or very marginal. They will, first of all, put those 2 districts safely out of GOP reach (or at least try to).
Secondly, 3 of the 5 seats which the Republicans currently hold — CD-1, CD-2, CD-5 — are already tenuous and when the Rats screw the GOP to the wall it’s entirely possible that the VA House delegation will end up 9D, 2R. It’s 6D, 5 R at this time.
It will be 8D, 3R at best for the Republicans if the Rats get their way, and they are likely to get their way. Funny how partisan judges rarely intervene to help Republicans when Democrats are screwing them; the other way around happens frequently.
That independent. Commission is not very independent.
The members are appointed by the parties and the Republicans are RINOs who only worry about preserving the Republican seats of fellow RINOs.
The democrats stacked the commission in their rules writing. And they have democrat judges protecting their gerrymandering when the lines are being drawn.
Also to get Winsome Earl-Sears off the campaign trail in the closing days of the campaign. As Lt. Governor she has to preside over the session.
Good catch. Always trying to show the power of their city over the rest of the state. Exactly what Sen. Dirksen warned in 1964.
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