South Carolina will use a congressional map a federal court docket dominated was “unconstitutional” on this 12 months’s election, following uncertainty across the timing of the Supreme Courtroom’s overview of a district {that a} decrease court docket deemed was racially gerrymandered.
Republican lawmakers shuffled hundreds of Black voters out of the state’s 1st District, represented by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, to make the Charleston-area district extra reliably crimson. The state NAACP sued, arguing that the legislature’s motion was unconstitutionally discriminatory.
The Supreme Courtroom heard the case — Alexander v….