REPORT FROM NPR
Southern Republicans redistrict after Supreme Court rules, Dems lose big in Virginia
Democrats suffered a major setback and Republicans continued to reshape voting maps their way in a frantic week of developments prompted by court rulings.
The Supreme Court of Virginia Friday nullified the results of a special election on April 21, where 1.6 million Virginians approved redistricting that Democrats hoped would win them four more House seats. In a 4-3 ruling, the court said the legislature followed the wrong process for putting the question, an amendment to the state constitution, on the ballot.
Meanwhile, Southern Republicans rushed to redraw their states' congressional voting maps after an April 29 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which weakened voting rights protections for minority communities.
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