The map would have added several Democtratic-leaning districts as a counter to GOP gerrymandering in other states.

Virginia’s Democratic attorney general, Jay Jones, said Friday night that he would redouble efforts to campaign on behalf of Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections following the US Supreme Court’s rejection of a request to restore a voter-approved congressional map. Following the high court’s one-sentence denial of Democratic state officials’ petition for emergency relief…

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