Political: Suit seeks to redraw Scott’s congressional district

Rep. Bobby Scott represents Oregon Hill.

From the Times Dispatch article:

A federal judge will hear arguments today in a lawsuit aimed at declaring the state’s 3rd Congressional District invalid.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs, three voters residing in the district, are accusing the General Assembly of “racial gerrymandering” by packing African-American voters into Virginia’s only black-majority congressional district.
The plaintiffs — Dawn Curry Page, Gloria Personhuballah and James Farkas — allege that the district’s current boundaries make adjacent districts safer for Republican incumbents by diminishing the influence of African-American voters in these areas.

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