The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.
While the Supreme Court case comes out of Wisconsin, political experts say the effect in Virginia could be groundbreaking.
"If the Supreme Court decides that partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional, that would have a revolutionary impact on the reapportionment process in Virginia," said Stephen Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington.
