Voting Rights
SCOTUS Rules Against SC’s Black Voters, Allows Racially Discriminatory Maps to Stand
WASHINGTON (May 23, 2024) — In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court today issued a decision that reversed a federal trial court’s unanimous finding that Congressional District 1 in South Carolina’s 2022 map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The Court also ruled that the district court applied the incorrect standard to Plaintiffs’ intentional vote dilution claim and returned that…