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U.S. Const. amends. XIV, XV. Alexander v. South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, 602 U.S. ___ (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding racial gerrymandering and partisan gerrymandering within South Carolina's 1st congressional district, which includes most of Charleston. Redistricting maps were drawn by the Republican-led ...
Rucho v. Common Cause, No. 18-422, 588 U.S. 684 (2019) is a landmark case of the United States Supreme Court concerning partisan gerrymandering. [1] The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the jurisdiction of these courts.
In dissent, liberal justices warned that the court was insulating states from claims of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. In a 6-3 decision, the court held that South Carolina's Republican ...
The Supreme Court is currently weighing a separate case concerning racial gerrymandering in the South, this time over Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama. The case could lead to a ...
The ACLU of South Carolina and the League of Women voters have sued the state over the state’s congressional partisan gerrymander, specifically in the 1st Congressional District. The ACLU ...
The North Carolina Supreme Court affirmed this decision in February 2022, in a 4-3 party-line vote. [51] [52] This decision was overturned in April 2023 by a new ruling in the same case, after the state supreme court shifted from Democratic to Republican control. [53] A federal case over the same maps is being heard as Moore v.
In the South Carolina case, the Supreme Court was reviewing a January 2023 lower court ruling that said race was of predominant concern when one of the state's seven districts was drawn.
The lawsuit, filed in the South Carolina Supreme Court, alleges state lawmakers redrawing lines for congressional districts after the 2020 census “violated the South Carolina Constitution when ...