Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down New Congressional Map
Court wipes out the voter-approved map that would have given Democrats up to four extra House seats heading into the midterms.
Overnight: Virginia's high court torpedoes the Democrats' redistricting gambit, the US-Iran skirmish in the Strait of Hormuz drags Saudi airspace politics into the open, and Cloudflare puts roughly a fifth of its workforce on the chopping block; watch the UK local-election dust settle and oil markets reprice as JPMorgan flags $5 gas as a real possibility.
Court wipes out the voter-approved map that would have given Democrats up to four extra House seats heading into the midterms.
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