The Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that determined South Carolina unlawfully removed 30,000 Black voters from the state’s 1st District.
when redrawing the map of the state’s 1st Congressional district, overturning a lower court ruling by the District of South Carolina.
“The District Court cited no evidence that could not also support the inference that politics drove the mapmaking process and provided no explanation why a mapmaker who wanted to produce a version of District 1 that would be safely Republican would use data about voters’ race rather than their political preferences,” he added. had engaged in racial gerrymandering.
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