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Supreme Court is death knell for Virginia's Democratic-friendly congressional maps
Virginia's Democratic-drawn congressional maps are dead after the state Supreme Court invalidated the referendum that approved them, ruling lawmakers botched the procedural requirements needed to place the measure on the ballot. The decision strips Democrats of maps they had engineered to their advantage heading into critical election cycles. The ruling hands redistricting power back to a process more favorable to Republicans, with significant implications for Virginia's congressional delegation.
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