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Justice Department,” said Del. V. Earl Dickinson of Louisa, a ranking member of the House of Delegates Privileges and Elections Committee. “We were told we had no choice in the matter and we were certainly under the impression this policy was one favored by the Supreme Court.”
But now the court has largely disowned what was federal policy and its future rulings could result in a Domino effect.
If, for example, the federal court strikes down Virginia’s 3rd District and orders its boundaries redrawn, that will have an effect on at least the state’s present 1st, 2nd, 4th and 7th Districts and possibly others.
Most experts think the case will go to the Supreme Court no matter how decided this fall while others speculate there is at least some chance court action will be swift and order boundaries redrawn in time to have new congressional elections in 1997, thus opening the chance of having federal elections in a gubernatorial election year. Others, such as Dickinson, don’t think that will happen. He says his committee is taking a wait and see attitude on redistriqting.
There are reports that the Senate Privileges and Elections counterpart is already starting to plan for the possibility of a special congressional redistricting session next spring. But State Sen. Kevin G. Miller, the Republican committee chairman, said in reply to an inquiry from this column any course of action will depend on federal court action creating “a situation making it prudent that the committee
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