Image: People cast their votes on new maps at the Whitman middle school polling location in Alexandria, Virginia, on 21 April. Photograph: Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Chris Stein of The Guardian reports: “Virginia’s supreme court on Friday ruled that the state cannot use new congressional maps approved by voters to help Democrats gain as many as four new seats in the US House of Representatives, handing Republicans a major win ahead of November’s midterm elections.

The high court found that the state’s general assembly did not follow the appropriate procedure in approving the maps, which voters then passed in a referendum last month…”

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