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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Providing the defendants don’t appeal — and there would be little hope for winning an appeal — the Virginia General Assembly may deal later this year with fixing the state’s congressional boundaries after a federal court ruling that the present 3rd District is unconstitutional.
There are many ways that can be done, but several considerations loom large and may encourage Democrats and Republicans to try to accommodate each other.
Key Democratic leaders are passing the word that their major priority will be making sure that incumbent 3rd District Rep. Bobby Scott, the first black elected to Congress from Virginia in modem times, remains in a safe seat, although one with a reduced percentage of blacks.
At the same time Democrats will be trying to do no harm to present Democratic incumbents such as Rep. Owen Pickett of the 2nd District and Norman Sisisky of the 4th District.
One of the plaintiffs in the court case, Con Moon, 3rd District GOP
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