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A Monday court ruling dismissing a high-stakes redistricting case may be the end of Virginia’s long and dysfunctional redistricting drama. A federal court ruled that Paul Goldman, an activist lawyer, didn’t prove he had standing to sue in his bid to have a special election for the House of Delegates this fall.
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The proposed maps for Virginia’s new political districts were released Wednesday. The two experts who drew them said that they didn’t consider political balances but the maps give Democrats a slight majority in keeping with historical voting patterns.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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After the process for redrawing new state districts broke down, Virginia’s redistricting commission moved onto drawing congressional districts and are mostly working with a single draft map.
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Two competing maps and key political differences about how they will handle Virginia’s increasingly diverse population prompted three members to walk out of Friday’s meeting. Those members – including co-chair Greta Harris – were back Monday.
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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.
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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.
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Commissioners hoped public comment would guide their work ahead of a deadline Sunday. There was widespread public participation, but relatively few commenters spoke about race and ethnicity’s place in the new maps despite that issue being the main roadblock to consensus maps.