Redistricting Virginia: Deadline means that anything is possible with lawmakers meeting this week | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Virginia lawmakers return Monday to Richmond for a special session to redraw the state’s congressional map, facing a Sept. 1 deadline after a federal court ruling they illegally packed black voters into Rep. Bobby Scott’s southeastern district. Some Democrats are eyeing big changes, with state Sen. Chap Petersen planning to introduce a map that would shuffle…