Virginians Pass Key Redistricting Initiative; HRC President Kelley Robinson: “Virginians just put anti-democracy, anti-freedom lawmakers on notice”

WASHINGTON - Today, the Human Rights Campaign PAC (HRC), the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, celebrated the passage of a Virginia ballot initiative that amends the state constitution to allow the Legislature to re-draw the state's Congressional districts this year. This effort comes in response to the anti-democratic moves by several Republican-led state legislatures after demands from President Trump, which gerrymandered their Congressional maps and disenfranchised pro-equality residents of those states.