Supreme court allows South Carolina to use congressional map accused of racial gerrymander

Here’s more from the Guardian’s Sam Levine on the decision by the supreme court’s conservative supermajority to allow South Carolina’s congressional map to stand, despite claims that they amount to a racial gerrymander, and what that means for voting rights in the south: South Carolina Republicans do not need to redraw their congressional map, the US supreme court ruled on Thursday, saying that a lower court had not properly evaluated the evidence when it ruled that the lawmakers...

discriminated against Black voters. In a 6-3 decision, the justices sent the case back to the lower court for further consideration. The decision in Alexander v South Carolina Conference of the NAACP is a major win for Republicans, who hold a slim margin in the US House with six of South Carolina’s seven congressional seats. It also could give lawmakers more leeway to discriminate in redistricting and use partisanship as a proxy for race.

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