The 4 Republicans (it was a 4-3 partisan ruling) ruled that the procedure for putting an amendment before voters wasn’t followed. They did that by defining “election” to be from the very first moment a vote is sent in so they could say the initiating vote by the legislature (where it also passed twice) was too late to count as having an intervening election between votes.
The thing that the actual voters voted in was an amendment to the state constitution. It doesn’t get more democracy than this.
How tf can Virginia’s Supreme Court oppose an amendment? It literally overrides them
The 4 Republicans (it was a 4-3 partisan ruling) ruled that the procedure for putting an amendment before voters wasn’t followed. They did that by defining “election” to be from the very first moment a vote is sent in so they could say the initiating vote by the legislature (where it also passed twice) was too late to count as having an intervening election between votes.