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  • Virginia’s black-majority district map rejected

    10/08/2014 12:20:43 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 23 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Oct 7, 2014 6:57 PM EDT | Larry O’Dell
    Virginia legislators packed too many black voters into one congressional district in order to make adjacent districts safer for Republican incumbents, a federal court ruled Tuesday. The 2-1 ruling by a panel of judges left the state’s congressional districts intact for November’s elections but ordered the General Assembly to draw new boundaries by April 1 next year correcting the flawed 2012 redistricting plan. […] With Democratic-backing, two voters from the 3rd District filed a lawsuit challenging the district map. The plaintiffs claimed that the lawmakers who drew it could have shifted a large number of black voters from (Bobby) Scott’s...