Abe Hamadeh Calls Virginia Redistricting Effort 'Blatantly Illegal' After Virginia Supreme Court Strikes It Down

Representative Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) commented on the Virginia Supreme Court striking down the redrawn congressional district map for the Old Dominion State, calling it "blatantly illegal" in a recent social media post.

Virginia voters initially approved a new congressional map in April that would heavily favor Democrats in a narrow vote, allowing them to gain four additional seats in Congress at the cost of leaving Republicans with a single seat that took up most of the state's border with West Virginia.

Republicans responded harshly to this perceived gerrymandering, and the Virginia Supreme Court seemed to share the same sentiment, ruling the proposed redistricting map unconstitutional on Friday, 4-3.

Justice D. Arthur Kelsey wrote in the majority decision that the proposed amendment submitted by voters to the legislature was unprecedented, adding, "This violation irreparably undermines the integrity of the resulting referendum vote and renders it null and void."

Responding to the Associated Press's coverage of the ruling, Rep. Hamadeh wrote, "Democrats just burned over $80 million trying to disenfranchise half the state of Virginia."

"They rushed it through a special session without even bothering to check if it was legal," Rep. Hamadeh argued. "These are the same people who lecture us nonstop that common-sense election integrity is a "threat to democracy." Yet their own radical redistricting power grab was so blatantly illegal, the courts had no choice but to slap it down."

The Arizona congressman previously asserted that a Washington Post column analyzing the potential results of the SAVE America Act was a tacit admission that voter fraud is real and affects election outcomes.

The Post suggested that if the SAVE America Act was in effect today, the swing states of Nevada and New Mexico would shift red, prompting Hamadeh to comment, "This is an outright admission from the Washington Post that voter fraud exists & tangibly changes the direction of the country."