Supreme Court upholds new Virginia legislative maps

Virginia’s legislative elections this year will happen under new court-ordered maps, after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that the GOP-led House of Delegates can’t step in and independently appeal a case the state’s attorney general has given up.

The ruling came on procedural grounds, but the effect is to cancel parts of the state House of Delegates maps that have been used for most of this decade, after a lower court found them to be illegal racial gerrymanders.

The 5-4 ruling comes just as Virginia gears up for its legislative...