Virginia Democrats’ motion urging the state supreme court to temporarily halt its order against the 2026 gerrymandering referendum appears to include two major typos.
Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, alongside Virginia House Speaker Don Scott and Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas, represented by legal counsel,petitionedthe Supreme Court of Virginia to delay its order which struck down the gerrymandering referendum. Thejoint motion’sfirst page misspells “Virginia” in the section identifying the plantiff and, just below it, misspells “senator” when identifying the defendants.
“DON SCOTT, in his official capacity asSpeaker of theVirgniaHouse of Delegates, etal.,” the motion submitted by Virginia Solicitor GeneralTillman Breckenridge opens, before also misspelling the defendant’s title as “sentator.”
The motion was filed Friday night after the court ruled 4-3 the referendum was not placed on the ballot in accordance with constitutional procedures.
Jones’s office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.
Several individuals on social media were quick topanthe typos included in the motion.
“Learning to spell Virginia would be a start,” one X userwrote, along with a screenshot of the motion.
“Waiting for someone else to notice the glaring misspelling,” another personpostedon X.
In response to the Supreme Court of Virginia’s decision, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, in a Fridaystatement, claimed that “decision to overturn an entire election is an unprecedented and undemocratic action that cannot stand.”
“MAGA Republicans have adopted voter suppression as a strategy, as also evidenced by far-right extremists on the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act to open the door to a Jim Crow-like attack on Black representation across the American South,”
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