The Supreme Court has preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district, rejecting a lower-court ruling that the district discriminated against Black voters.
The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a Republican-held South Carolina congressional district , rejecting a lower- court ruling that said the district discriminated against Black voters.The court's conservative majority said in a 6-3 decision that the Republican-controlled state legislature did nothing wrong during redistricting when it strengthened Rep. Nancy Mace's hold on the coastal district by moving 30,000 Democratic-leaning Black residents of Charleston out of the district.
Alito wrote that one weakness of the Black voters' case was that they did not produce an alternative map, which he called an “implicit concession” that they couldn't have drawn one. “The District Court's conclusions are clearly erroneous because it did not follow this basic logic,” he wrote.Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the three liberals, said her conservative colleagues ignored the work of the lower court that found the district had been gerrymandered by race.
South Carolina Dhnd Black Voters Congressional District Court Ruling
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