The Virginia Supreme Court took over the redistricting process last month after a newly appointed redistricting commission broke down amid partisan acrimony. … The high court ultimately tapped Sean Trende …and Bernard Grofman, a [Distinguished Professor], political scientist and economist at the University of California, Irvine who had previous experience mapping Virginia lines and was nominated by Democrats. In a memo to the court, Trende and Grofman wrote that they worked well together to come up with the new lines.

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