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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