Lawmakers in Virginia will launch a long-shot bid to redraw their state’s congressional district boundaries in a special session next week, the latest in an increasingly national war over map lines that will influence control of the U.S. House of Representatives in next year’s elections.
That war broke out first in Texas, where Republican lawmakers redrew district lines at the behest of President Trump and Gov. Greg Abbott (R). It spread to California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is backing his own bid to effectively neutralize the Texas plan. And governors and congressional leaders are pushing other states to tinker with their own lines.
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