Posted on 05/23/2024 2:51:55 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Republican-drawn South Carolina congressional district, reversing lower court rulings that had struck it down as a product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering that excluded Black voters.
Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court in a 6-3 ruling from which the liberal justices dissented, said the lower court's decision that race was unconstitutionally used to diminish the influence of Black voters was "clearly erroneous" because it had not properly analyzed the facts.
"A party challenging a map's constitutionality must disentangle race and politics if it wishes to prove that the legislature was motivated by race as opposed to partisanship. Second, in assessing a legislature's work, we start with a presumption that the legislature acted in good faith," Alito wrote. "In this case...the three-judge District Court paid only lip service to these propositions."
At issue in the case was South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, which stretches from Savannah and Hilton Head up to Charleston and is represented by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace.
When the district was redrawn after the 2020 census, it moved several predominately Black neighborhoods to the neighboring 6th district. As a result, it was met with a challenge from the South Carolina NAACP and resident Taiwan Scott.
Scott, the only individual plaintiff and a member of the native Gullah community, told ABC News he believed how the new district was drawn was "deliberate" and was "taking our opportunity to elect a representative away from us."
But Justice Alito, writing for the conservative majority, said the "Challengers provided no direct evidence of a racial gerrymander and their circumstantial evidence is very weak."
The ruling ensures that the district will remain solidly Republican in the 2024 election.
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Nice, probably gets us a seat in the House, and likely more seats in the future.
There. Fixed it.
We already have the seat. If they had lost the case, then we might have lost a seat.
I say it is bigoted and fans racial tensions to assume that only blacks can represent blacks.
John Roberts needs to stop running his punk mouth about “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges … That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.” [2018], in telling President Trump not to believe his lying eyes.
The Democrat stooge-judges were trying to steal a US House seat for Hakeem "CommieBoy" Jeffries.
The three-judge panel from the lower district court:
Court Description: ORDER and OPINION denying 323 Senate and House Defendants' motion for summary judgment.
Signed by the Honorable Toby J. Heytens [Biden stooge], the Honorable Richard Mark Gergel [Obama stooge], and the Honorable Mary Geiger Lewis [Obama stooge] on 9/15/2022.
Those who object to this treat the black vote as monolithic.
As long as black people are not impeded from voting, then they are not having their voting power diminished.
Conservative blacks are empowered by this because their vote can actually be counted for a change.
I live in (SC 1). Nancy Mace the disgrace rode Trump’s coat tails to office. Adding black votes to (SC 6) is unnecessary as it represented by James Clyburn. The only way he’ll leave office is feet first.
nah nah na nah nah...
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