Virginia Democrats denounced a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that they said “guts” the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by making it harder to prove that race drove political decisions on new election maps and voting requirements.
But some legal experts suggested that the ruling could actually protect a pending Virginia Democratic plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts for partisan advantage from Republicans challenging it in federal court as an impermissible racial gerrymander.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
