Supreme Court Allows South Carolina’s Racial Gerrymander To Stand

Supreme Court Allows South Carolina’s Racial Gerrymander To Stand

The Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision that found that South Carolina Republicans improperly used race to gerrymander the state’s 1st Congressional District in a Thursday decision. A three-judge federal district court panel ruled in 2023 that the lines drawn in the state’s 1st Congressional District were an illegal racial gerrymander. The legislature’s movement … Read more