U.S. Sup Ct.;
14-1504
Appellee voters from Virginia’s Congressional District 3 filed suit challenging the Commonwealth’s 2013 congressional redistricting plan on the ground that the legislature’s redrawing of their district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Appellant Members of Congress from Virginia, including, as relevant here, Representatives Randy Forbes, Robert Wittman, and David Brat, intervened to help defend the Commonwealth’s plan. The District Court struck down the plan, and the intervenors appealed to this Court, which vacated the judgment below and remanded the case in light of one of the Court’s recent decisions. Again, the District Court held that the redistricting plan was unconstitutional, and again, the intervenors appealed. This time, the Court directed the parties to address whether appellants lack standing, since none reside in or represent Congressional District 3.
