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‘A generational shift’
Retirements, redistricting will remake legislature
Updated June 29 Politicians like to suggest every new election is the most important of our lifetimes, but Virginia’s off-off-year state legislative elections in 2023 might actually live up to
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The main event
Redrawn districts become incumbent battlegrounds
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Updated Jan. 4, 2023 Like the quote from a possibly apocryphal Harvard Law professor, Virginia legislators can look to their left and then to their right, and one of their
No 2022 delegate elections, judges rule
Politico sought new elections following Census redrawing
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Virginia politico Paul Goldman’s quest to force new elections of state delegates this fall ended in defeat Monday, after a panel of three federal judges ruled that he lacked standing
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Lawmakers kill bill calling for transparency in redistricting commission
Bill would have required meetings to be advertised and accessible to public
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RICHMOND, Va. — The Virginia Senate killed a House proposal to expand access to the commonwealth’s new redistricting commission and help make the process more transparent and democratic. House Bill
Representing the underdogs
Republican House leader aims to be ‘voice of reason’
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Although it’s hard to think way back to January 2020, a time before a year of social unrest, pandemic and economic peril, that’s when Virginia’s legislature and executive branch became
Virginia redistricting committee takes shape
Applications due Dec. 28 for eight citizen slots
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RICHMOND, Va. — More than half a dozen legislators have been named to a bipartisan redistricting commission that seeks to fairly draw congressional and state legislative districts. The commission will