The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional map Thursday, rejecting the argument raised by civil rights groups that lawmakers impermissibly used race as a proxy to ...
May 23 (UPI) --The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a pro-Republican redraw of a South Carolina congressional district did not unlawfully exclude Black voters, rejecting a lower court's ...
A Supreme Court decision will make it harder for voters to prove lawmakers improperly relied on race for congressional maps, ...
The South Carolina Conference of the NAACP said the map unlawfully diluted Black voting power in the state as Black voters ...
FILE - State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, D-Columbia, compares his proposed map of U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 U.S. Census data to a plan supported by Republicans on Jan. 20, 2022, in Columbia ...
Voters fill out their ballots at a polling place, Feb. 29, 2020, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal court on Thursday ruled that this year's ...
With state election deadlines approaching, a federal court in March had already ruled that South Carolina could use the contested map in this year’s election. The decision was 6-3 along ...