Virginia HoD Redraw Thread - SCOTUS will not stop map drawing

[Tintrlvr]

Why are they releasing new maps?

I don't know the exact amount, but many of the seats in the House were ruled to be illegal racial gerrymanders.

Is this federal court? State court? Hadn't heard anything about the HoD maps being thrown out. Is the court redrawing the entire map or just select parts of it?

[Tintrlvr]

Wait, so there are two separate cases on the same topic moving through the State SC and the SCOTUS? What happens if we get different decisions, one based on the US Constitution and the other on the VA Constitution?

Either in theory could throw out the districts (as noted, though, the state-level case seems to be over). They can (and often do) have different results under the two constitutions, but that's okay. If the maps are unconstitutional under either constitution, they have to be redrawn, so it's effectively two bites at the apple.

[Tintrlvr]

I feel old to have lived through Virginia’s transition from ancestral Democrat to Republican dominance to, finally, moderate-to-liberal metropolitan Democrat.

Virginia was the first southern state to make this change. May Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas he close behind. (I can’t think of any other comparable southern state.)

Might happen in South Carolina long-term as well.