My rep for SC-1, which mace is now fighting hard to keep the gerrymandered district, as of now, the district will go back to its former lines...hopefully, the folks of SC-1 won't have the embarrassment of this clown as their rep in the next congress.
Federal Court Rules South Carolina’s Congressional Map is Gerrymandered
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal court today ordered South Carolina to redraw its 2021 enacted congressional map, ruling that a district anchored in Charleston County is a racial gerrymander.
The case was brought on behalf of the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP and an individual voter, Taiwan Scott, who are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, Legal Defense Fund (LDF), UMD Law Professor Chris Bryant, Arnold & Porter, and General Counsel’s Office of the NAACP.
During an eight-day trial this past fall, plaintiffs highlighted how the South Carolina Legislature engineered its new map to cut through Black communities to suppress Black voting power — and demonstrated how lawmakers hid behind arbitrary justifications to achieve their discriminatory actions.
In so doing, a unanimous panel acknowledged the principle that “[s]tate legislators are free to consider a broad array of factors in the design of a legislative district, including partisanship, but they may not use race as a predominant factor and may not use partisanship as a proxy for race,” as they did in designing aspects of South Carolina’s congressional map.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-south-carolinas-congressional-map-gerrymandered
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