Here’s How the Court Will Draw Virginia’s New Political Districts

The Virginia Redistricting Commission has missed a final deadline to draw new state legislative maps, kicking the process to the Virginia Supreme Court.

The court’s seven justices won’t draw the lines. Instead, they’ll hire two experts who will work together to come up with finished maps.

William and Mary law professor Rebecca Green says the justices would rather be doing almost anything else: “It puts judges right where they don’t like to be, which is in the middle of a political morass.”

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