Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme Republican gerrymander is legal.

"I got something waiting for Texas…" Virginia state Senate President Louise Lucas wrote in a post on X Thursday night in response to the Supreme Court's decision allowing Texas’ congressional map that ousts as many as five Democrats from the state’s delegation to be used in the 2026 midterms.

SCOTUS on Thursday night reversed a lower court ruling that had said Texas' new map was an illegal racial gerrymander. The 6-3 conservative court majority instead said that Texas' map was a legal partisan gerrymander, and blessed the state to implement the new district lines for

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