Virginia Redistricting in Court: Judge Rules Democrats Broke the Law on Constitutional Amendment Push | Ken Cuccinelli

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🗓️ 31 January 2026

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Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said a recent state court ruling blocking Democrats’ attempt to advance a redistricting constitutional amendment is firmly rooted in Virginia law and could ultimately be upheld on appeal. Speaking with The Daily Signal’s Joe Thomas, Cuccinelli said the judge found the amendment process violated state law on three independent grounds, including notice requirements, election timing, and limits on special legislative sessions. This ruling is “no slam dunk,” however, says Cuccinelli, Virginia’s former attorney general and current national chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative. “It is not common for a judge to go beyond ruling on one reason to reach an outcome, but the judge, I presume, knows that this is on a tight time schedule. And, in his mind, presumably, there wasn’t time to go up to the Supreme Court and come back down… so he ruled on everything in front of him. So now it goes to the Virginia Supreme Court, and this is no slam dunk.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.1	where you are a special presentation of first things first and our first things redistricting you hear the most
0:40.4	outrageous lies about it and from the election transparency initiative the great ken kuchinelli
0:47.3	joins us former acting dhs secretary and attorney general of the commonwealth of Virginia, state senator there for a while
0:56.8	too. That's the first place I met. Ken, how are you doing this morning, sir?
1:01.6	Warm enough. Warm enough. Okay. So earlier this week, and as we watch the dozen or so states that are still in various flux
1:13.3	regarding what is going to happen with their redistricting court case that I know some of the
1:19.8	functionaries of was ruled on in Daswell, Virginia, judge saying that the process that the Democrats use to circumvent a lot of
1:31.9	the protections in keeping a constitutional amendment, something that is a ponderous process,
1:40.7	something that requires time and forethought. But they wanted to circumvent it and take a
1:46.8	four-year process and make it a four-year, four-month process, Ken. He ruled that they broke the law
1:53.3	in doing it and are breaking the law by trying to make court clerks take a vote in April on a
2:05.6	constitutional amendment that they cannot post for 90 days because there won't be 90 days for it. Can a lot of conservatives I know say, yeah, that's a nice
2:12.9	ruling. It's nice to get a win from the judge, but he's wrong on the law. You know the law pretty good.
2:19.0	You were the law for quite a while. So what do you see in this ruling out of Daswell?
2:25.1	Well, first of all, the judge ruled on three separate independent bases that the way the Democrats have
2:33.0	gone about advancing their redistricting constitutional amendment
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