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Supreme Court denies Virginia Republicans' request to hit pause on drawing new delegate district map
From The Daily Press January 8th, 2019 3:45 pm
Supreme Court denies Virginia Republicans’ request to hit pause on drawing new delegate district map
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post)
Marie Albiges and Dave RessContact ReportersStaff writer
Virginia Republicans may have just had their last chance to stop a court-ordered redrawing of state legislative districts.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Speaker of the House Kirk Cox’s request to delay the map drawing until the highest court hears arguments in the appeal of a case that began four years ago when a group of Democratic voters alleged several Virginia districts were racially gerrymandered.
A panel of three federal judges ruled in 2017 that the General Assembly's 2011 redistricting was unconstitutional because it put too many black voters into 11 districts, including two on the Peninsula and four in South Hampton Roads.
The ruling on Tuesday comes two days before a specially appointed professional map drawer is set to present several options for what Virginia’s new district lines could look like to a federal court.
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The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (Ricky Carioti / The Washington Post)
Marie Albiges and Dave RessContact ReportersStaff writer
Virginia Republicans may have just had their last chance to stop a court-ordered redrawing of state legislative districts.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Speaker of the House Kirk Cox’s request to delay the map drawing until the highest court hears arguments in the appeal of a case that began four years ago when a group of Democratic voters alleged several Virginia districts were racially gerrymandered.
A panel of three federal judges ruled in 2017 that the General Assembly's 2011 redistricting was unconstitutional because it put too many black voters into 11 districts, including two on the Peninsula and four in South Hampton Roads.
The ruling on Tuesday comes two days before a specially appointed professional map drawer is set to present several options for what Virginia’s new district lines could look like to a federal court.
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https://www.dailypress.com/news/virginia/dp-nws-scotus-denies-gop-stay-redistricting-20190108-story.html
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