Supreme Court Approves South Carolina Voting Map

“The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s ruling that a congressional voting map in South Carolina was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander that resulted in the ‘bleaching of African American voters’ from a district,” the New York Times reports.

“The vote was 6 to 3, with the court’s three liberal members in dissent.”

“A unanimous three-judge panel of the Federal District Court in Columbia, S.C., ruled in early 2023 that the state’s First Congressional District, drawn after the 2020 census, violated the Constitution by making race the predominant factor.”