Posted on 01/07/2023 6:54:48 AM PST by PermaRag
A panel of three federal judges in South Carolina ruled Friday the state’s 1st District was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander and ordered state lawmakers to redraw the congressional map before any more elections can be held.
The decision gave lawmakers until March to draw new lines for the district, which runs along the state’s southern coast and is currently represented by Republican Nancy Mace. The ruling is the latest in suits over this decade’s congressional redistricting based on the 2020 census results, including in states such as Florida and Texas.
An individual voter and the state’s NAACP filed the lawsuit in 2021, arguing that state legislators manipulated the congressional map to minimize the voting power of Black voters.
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Republicans need to start ballot harvesting also.
how are these lines in Illinois constitutional, but the lines in South Carolina aren’t?
The screaming from the Media would be deafening...
I just did. The "U" shaped current district actually looks less ridiculous than the "Y" shaped former district which elected a Democrat. Methinks that is the real problem here.
Looking at the map, the judges are correct that it is a gerrymandered district, but while the are at it, the need to un-gerrymander the county (?) near Columbia.
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More BS, where does it say in the constitution that voting districts be drawn up according to race?
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Ted Kennedy's Voting Rights Act that only applied to Souther States because they were the only racist states. Ted, the gift that keeps on giving.
Agree. That is what I recall. The shape of congressional districts isn’t justiciable.
<> the three judges agreed that the 1st District violated the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.<>
Oh, and their shape has nothing to do with the 14th Amendment.
Oh crap. Does this mean that we will be tossed back into Clyburn’s district?? Nance Mace is a RINO, but I’ll take her any day over Clyburn.
This is worrisome, as we will be moving to SC’s 1st district.
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