🔴 LIVE UPDATES: Virginia Supreme Court hearing GOP bid to block voter-approved redistricting

The Virginia Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday morning in a case that will help determine whether Democrats can go forward with the redistricting plan approved by voters Tuesday.

Under the plan, Virginia would implement a “10-1” electoral map that could win Democrats four more seats in Congress and help counteract President Donald Trump’s unprecedented mid-decade gerrymanders across the United States.

But a group of Republicans sued in October, arguing that Democratic lawmakers violated certain procedural rules in passing the constitutional amendment on redistricting they put on the ballot, which was needed to conduct a mid-decade redistricting. A lower court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in January. The appeal will now be heard by the Virginia Supreme Court.

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As proceedings begin in Virginia’s highest court, you can get up to speed with this summary of last week’s in-depth Democracy Docket coverage of the redistricting vote and the legal challenges to it.

And ICYMI, a Virginia court on Sunday rejected a Republican bid to block the new map, ruling that doing so after voters have approved it “would imperil the public interests.” That’s a different case from the one the Supreme Court will hear Monday.