A federal court in South Carolina ruled Thursday that ... its supposed dilution of Black voters' political sway, it also determined that a redrawn map is unfeasible with absentee voting deadlines ...

Black voters and organizations challenging the South Carolina maps, he said, had no direct evidence that racial data, rather than political data, dominated. “Have we ever had a case before where ...

In the short term, this ruling does not change much for upcoming elections, says Kirk Randazzo, University of South Carolina political science ... that the contested map would be used for the ...

The South Carolina NAACP challenged the redistricting ... In short, he said that the map achieved the GOP’s political goals, nothing more. “Justice Alito has been the one who has really ...

The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to reverse a lower court ruling that determined a South Carolina ... of evidence for political reasons for the lines of the district map, and the case ...

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. Black voters and their ...

The case is one of several racial and political gerrymandering ... suggested that the Republican-controlled South Carolina Legislature adopted the maps by considering race as a predominant factor ...

The lower court has paused the submission of a redrawn map ... South Carolina officials argued in a brief that allowing that ruling to stand would invite federal courts to “micromanage political ...

“For decades, South Carolina has tried to push Black voters out of the electoral process and effectively silence us with maps that dilute our political power,” Taiwan Scott, the resident who ...