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Federal judges will redraw Virginia’s congressional map
Federal judges will redraw Virginia’s congressional mapPosted: Monday, August 17, 2015 9:45 pm
BY MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
mmartz@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6964
The public never got its say on changes to Virginia congressional district boundaries and the state’s political redistricting process. ... But federal judges soon will.
A public hearing on redistricting ended abruptly Monday when the House Privileges and Elections Committee chairman, Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, refused to take further testimony after announcing that the Senate had adjourned the special legislative session hours after it began.
Cole interrupted Diana Egozcue, president of Virginia NOW and the sixth of 19 scheduled speakers, with the announcement, “We’re no longer in session, so we can no longer take your testimony.”
House Republican leaders appeared shell-shocked by the Senate maneuver, which ensures the General Assembly will not meet a Sept. 1 deadline imposed by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to fix unconstitutional defects in the redistricting plan that then-Gov. Bob McDonnell signed in January 2012.
BY MICHAEL MARTZ Richmond Times-Dispatch
mmartz@timesdispatch.com
(804) 649-6964
The public never got its say on changes to Virginia congressional district boundaries and the state’s political redistricting process. ... But federal judges soon will.
A public hearing on redistricting ended abruptly Monday when the House Privileges and Elections Committee chairman, Mark L. Cole, R-Spotsylvania, refused to take further testimony after announcing that the Senate had adjourned the special legislative session hours after it began.
Cole interrupted Diana Egozcue, president of Virginia NOW and the sixth of 19 scheduled speakers, with the announcement, “We’re no longer in session, so we can no longer take your testimony.”
House Republican leaders appeared shell-shocked by the Senate maneuver, which ensures the General Assembly will not meet a Sept. 1 deadline imposed by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to fix unconstitutional defects in the redistricting plan that then-Gov. Bob McDonnell signed in January 2012.
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