The redrawn congressional map moved Whites into one district and Blacks out. But the legislature said those decisions focused on political party, not race.
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.found that Alabama had illegally drawn its congressional map
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who wrote the Alabama decision last term, said disentangling race and politics in gerrymandering cases is “very, very difficult” when voting is polarized along both racial and political lines. Black voters and organizations challenging the South Carolina“Have we ever had a case before where all it is is circumstantial evidence?” Roberts asked Leah C. Aden of the Legal Defense Fund, which is representing the challengers.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed, asking detailed questions about whether White Democrats were treated differently from Black Democrats. “The numbers are incredible,” she saidJustice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the Supreme Court’s role should be only to decide whether the lower court had made a clear legal error in its ruling. But conservative justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said that was different from simply deferring to the lower court.Alito said.
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