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The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday that a lower court “clearly erred” in its assessment of South Carolina’s congressional district map. The high court’s majority opinion, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, declared that the circumstantial evidence presented fell “far short of showing that race, not partisan preferences, drove the districting process.”
The case, Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, challenged the congressional map drawn by the Republican-controlled South Carolina legislature following the 2020 Census. The NAACP and a District 1 voter had alleged that the map was a racial gerrymander designed to dilute the voting power of Black residents.
However, the Supreme Court’s ruling firmly rebuked the claim, revealing that the challengers failed to disentangle race from politics—a crucial distinction given the high correlation between race and party affiliation in South Carolina. “We start with a presumption that the legislature acted in good faith,” the Court noted.
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