Supreme Court sides with South Carolina Republicans in redistricting dispute
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The Supreme Court reversed a decision from lower court that found GOP lawmakers improperly used race when designing one of South Carolina's congressional districts.
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The Supreme Court reversed a decision from lower court that found GOP lawmakers improperly used race when designing one of South Carolina's congressional districts.
The Supreme Court on Thursday handed a victory to South Carolina Republicans, ruling against a challenge to an electoral map they devised that moved 30,000 black residents out of a congressional district.
The high court's conservative majority preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that said the district...
The justices rejected critics who said the Republican-dominated legislature's maps were drawn to drown out the political voice of Black voters, who tend to vote for Democrats.
The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a ruling by a federal district court holding that a congressional district on the South Carolina coast was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – that is, it sorted voters based primarily on their race. In an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, the justices cle
Justices uphold a redistricting map drawn by South Carolina's Republican Legislature and overturn a lower court ruling that called it a 'stark racial gerrymander.'
Despite Supreme Court rulings that created a new majority Black district in Louisiana and Alabama, the court kept a coastal South Carolina district mostly white – and Republican.
The Supreme Court found a South Carolina congressional map accused of racial gerrymandering can stand, reversing a district court decision that struck down the lines.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld South Carolina's congressional map after determining that partisan aspirations rather than racial motives colored the line-drawing process.
The Supreme Court ruled that Republicans in South Carolina did not unlawfully consider race when they drew a congressional district in a way that removed thousands of Black voters.
By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Devan Cole, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to bolster the GOP’s chances.
The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 vote along ideological lines, reversed a lower court decision that had struck down a South Carolina congressional district as a racial gerrymander.
The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that a lower court “clearly erred” when it held that South Carolina racially gerrymandered its congressional district map.
