Supreme Court to Hear South Carolina GOP Appeal on Voting Map

The US Supreme Court will consider reinstating a Republican-drawn congressional map in South Carolina in a case that could help determine which party controls the House over the next decade.

The justices said they will review a lower court’s conclusion that the GOP-controlled South Carolina legislature engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering when it redrew the state’s seven congressional districts after the 2020 census.

A three-judge panel said that for South Carolina’s 1st District, lawmakers established a target of 17% Black voters, shifting tens of thousands of African Americans out of the district to hit the goal. The configuration left the ...