The United States Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to allow racial gerrymandering in the South Carolina congressional maps to remain in place, on the dubious grounds that Republicans had inadvertently created the problem while trying to make a partisan gerrymander., the conservative bloc of justices reversed a 2023 appellate court ruling that found Republicans had illegally moved Black voters out of a congressional district — what the lower court described as “bleaching”.
Due to the ruling, the case is now remanded to the original district court where the maps were first challenged, and with the limits now imposed by the Supreme Court, the maps will likely be allowed to stand.as a legal means to draw political maps.
“In every way, the majority today stacks the deck against the Challengers. They must lose, the majority says, because the State had a ‘possible’ story to tell about not considering race — even if the opposite story was the more credible,” “Today, the Supreme Court has failed the American people. Voting rights have taken another gut punch, and the future of democracy in South Carolina is dangling by a thread,”, President of the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. “Make no mistake – we are not backing down from this fight.”
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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