Just the News (Natalia Mittelstadt), The Star News Network
Virginia Democrats on Friday passed a new congressional map through the commonwealth’s legislature to give their party four additional U.S. House seats amid a court battle with Republicans over the so-called redistricting plan. The legislature passed the map, which Democrats are hoping to put before voters in a referendum in April, a day after a judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by the Republican National Committee and state GOP over the redistricting effort, The Associated Press reported.