The Supreme Court Monday told a federal judicial panel in Virginia to take another look at its decision that lawmakers improperly packed minority voters into one congressional district.The court without comment sent the case back following its decision last week in a similar case from Alabama.In that case, the court ruled 5 to 4 that lower court judges should look more closely at whether lawmakers made race the predominate factor in drawing new district lines after the 2010 census.
In Virginia, a three-judge federal district court panel in the fall ruled that the Virginia General Assembly must draw new congressional maps because the current plan concentrates African-American voters into a single district at the expense of their influence elsewhere.
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