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and ordered Alabama to draw a second Black-plurality congressional district, it will hear another challenge on Wednesday arguing that yet another Southern state’s district map is racially discriminatory.
Alabama’s effort to rewrite the Voting Rights Act failed at the Supreme Court. South Carolina’s bid to get the court to ratify its alleged racial gerrymander will have consequences for similar cases rooted in the 14th Amendment, like one out of Florida that is still moving through lower courts. Unlike Alabama in Allen, South Carolina is not directly challenging Supreme Court precedent. The state’s Republican leadership simply argues that race was not a major factor when it redrew the boundaries of the 1st Congressional District, in and around Charleston. The Black South Carolinians, however, argue that the legislature engaged in race-conscious redistricting when it drew the district’s lines.
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