{"id":1101,"date":"2026-05-16T00:42:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:42:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T00:42:22","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-virginia-democrats-bid-to-restore-congressional-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=1101","title":{"rendered":"Supreme court rejects Virginia Democrats\u2019 bid to restore congressional map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation\u2019s mid-decade redistricting competition<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-supreme-court\">supreme court<\/a> on Friday rejected Virginia\u2019s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The court\u2019s order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation\u2019s mid-decade redistricting competition . It was kicked off last year by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent supreme court ruling severely weakening the Voting Rights Act that opened up even more winnable seats for the Republican party.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/15\/supreme-court-rejects-virginia-democrats-congressional-map\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation\u2019s mid-decade redistricting competition The supreme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}