Virginia Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of Virginia selected two people to serve as special masters, experts that will redraw political districts after a new independent commission failed to submit maps on time, in an order issued Friday.

The Virginia Redistricting Commission will miss its last deadline Monday after not meeting to take up congressional maps, leaving the Supreme Court of Virginia to take over the last task that remained with the commission.

Last week the Virginia Redistricting Commission made it clear they didn’t they would reach a compromise between the two hard partisan halves on congressional maps. But while they canceled all of their remaining meetings, they left themselves an avenue.

The Supreme Court of Virginia won't rehear the Lee Monument case. Thursday, the court denied a motion for a rehearing and clarification of a ruling that allowed the state to remove the statue in Richmond last month.

After three members of the Virginia Redistricting Commission walked out of a tense meeting last week, a parallel partisan map drawing process and fundamental disagreements regarding race and redistricting remain as the commission starts work on congressional maps.

Three commissioners walked out of the Virginia’s Redistricting Commissions Friday meeting after Republicans rejected a compromise on where to start drawing maps, putting the future of the commission in jeopardy.

The Supreme Court of Virginia is rejecting a challenge to Virginia's new law ditching the longstanding practice of prison gerrymandering. That means the next set of maps for General Assembly and Congress will no longer include incarcerated people in the rural communities where prisons are located but instead count them at their home address or last known address.

The Supreme Court of Virginia heard arguments Tuesday from people hoping to block the removal of the Lee Monument from the former Capital of the…

The Supreme Court of Virginia is ending the eviction moratorium, a move that could spell trouble for people caught up in the economic crisis.Earlier this…

Daily life has changed not just at restaurants and gyms. Much of the action in your local courthouse has also been postponed. In an unprecedented move,…