Supreme Court sides with South Carolina Republicans in redistricting dispute
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that invalidated the lines of a congressional district in South Carolina as an unlawful racial gerrymander, delivering a win to Republican mapmakers who said they used politics, not race, as the predominant factor when drawing the district bounds.
The 6-3 ruling from the high court reverses the ruling from a three-judge district court panel that found GOP lawmakers improperly used race when designing Congressional District 1, represented by Republican Rep. Nancy Mace.
In a majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the court's conservative justices said that the district court's findings were "clearly erroneous."
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