Supreme Court of Virginia will hear oral arguments on redistricting referendum Monday

The Supreme Court of Virginia will hear oral arguments on the redistricting referendum Monday as it considers the legality of the plan.

Despite narrowly being approved by voters in Tuesday's special election, the Supreme Court will have to decide if Democratic lawmakers violated procedural rules when they referred a constitutional amendment to the ballot to create Virginia's new congressional map.

CBS 6 reporter Cameron Thompson spoke with Cayce Myers, a professor at Virginia Tech, about the next steps in the legal battle. He said he feels it's important to know that the current legal challenges aren't about the fairness of the districts or whether gerrymandering is a good or bad thing, but whether or not the process was legal.

"The issue is a very legalistic definitional issue around what happened and the process by which it happened, and to get to the point that there was a vote," Myers explained.

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