The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a state’s mapmakers may shift tens of thousands of Black voters to a different district if they were seeking to shore up a partisan advantage for a Republican candidate.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices upheld a redistricting map drawn by South Carolina’s Republican legislature and overturned a lower court ruling that called it a “stark racial gerrymander.”
At issue was whether the state legislators drew the districts for political or racial reasons.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.