CNN reports that Virginia’s Supreme Court “nullified a new congressional map that could have given the Democrats four additional seats in the House of Representatives.” What the text of Virginia’s Constitution “doesn’t say is illuminating, says Quinn Yeargain, a law professor at Michigan State University.” By omitting language stating “that the legislature must publicize a proposed amendment to voters three months before the intervening election,” Yeargain says “they effectively made it easier” to amend the constitution.