The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to reinstate a South Carolina congressional map drawn by the GOP-majority legislature that a lower court found “exiled” 30,000 Black voters to create a district safer for a White Republican incumbent.
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Supreme Court seems inclined to reinstate disputed South Carolina map
The redrawn congressional map moved Whites in and Blacks out. But the legislature said those decisions focused on political party, not race.
October 11, 2023 at 5:36 p.m. EDT