That all changed after two recent court decisions.
In Virginia last week, the state’s supreme court nullified a recent voter referendum that approved that state’s new maps, which likely would have flipped four Republican seats into the Democratic column.
“Republicans have momentum heading into November,” Congressman Richard Hudson, who runs the House Republican campaign committee, said in a statement after the Virginia ruling. “We’re on offence, and we’re going to win.”
The week before that, the US Supreme Court reversed a decades-old precedent and ruled that the Voting Rights Act, passed during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, did not require states to create congressional districts that provided minority voters with the opportunity to elect candidates roughly in proportion to their overall population in the state.
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