The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a case examining whether South Carolina’s congressional map discriminates against Black voters, the latest high-profile elections law challenge the ...

South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, which challenged the state’s redrawn congressional map, arguing that it constitutes racial gerrymandering and dilutes Black residents’ votes.

South Carolina officials want the justices to overturn a lower court ruling from January that threw out the state’s 1st District lines drawn after the 2020 census and ordered the map redrawn.

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 ...

South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, Republican legislators argue that they had focused on politics, not race, when drawing new district lines. (Farragutful via Wikimedia) The court will hear oral ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a bid by South Carolina officials to revive a Republican-crafted voting map that a lower court said had unconstitutionally "exiled" 30,000 Black ...

But a three-judge panel in January 2023, which evaluated evidence and witnesses, said the South Carolina map is an illegal racial gerrymander that pushed Black people out for predominantly racial ...

A panel of federal judges on Friday ruled that South Carolina lawmakers racially gerrymandered the state’s 1st Congressional District specifically to dilute the power of Black voters. Three ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday appeared poised to revive a Republican-drawn electoral map in South Carolina that was blocked by a lower court for racial bias after ...

A resident of the district and the NAACP’s South Carolina wing challenged the new maps, also bringing claims of racial gerrymandering in two other congressional districts that were thrown out by ...