The Supreme Court found a South Carolina congressional map accused of racial gerrymandering can stand, reversing a district court that struck down the lines.
congressional map accused of racial gerrymandering can stand, reversing a district court that struck down the lines for Republican Rep.Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
FILE – State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, compares his proposed map of U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data to a plan supported by Republicans on Jan. 20, 2022, in Columbia, S.C. Federal judges are deciding whether South Carolina’s new congressional maps are legal in a lawsuit by the NAACP which says the districts dilute Black voting power.
First, he wrote that the party challenging the constitutionality of the map must “disentangle race and politics if it wishes to prove that the legislature was motivated by race as opposed to partisanship.” He added that “we stand with a presumption that the legislature acted in good faith. Justice Elena Kagan dissented from the majority, saying, “What a message to send to state legislators and map makers about racial gerrymandering.”
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