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Republicans admit gerrymandering. South Carolina Supreme Court weighs if that's allowed COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two years ago the U.S. Supreme Court upheld South Carolina’s new congressional maps, rejecting claims that they were racially biased. Now, the state Supreme Court will weigh whether those maps, drawn explicitly to weaken the Democratic vote, violate the state Constitution because they’re too partisan. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with South Carolina’s Republican leadership, who argued that the maps drawn in 2021 were not intended to dilute Black votes, merely Democratic ones. But a new suit brought by the League of Women Voters, a national nonpartisan organization, argues that the state constitution should prevent maps from being drawn in an overtly partisan manner. “You cannot intentionally dilute a group of voters in a way to affect their electoral opportunities,” said Allen Chaney, legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina, who represented the League. Their argument is based on a clause in the state constitution that guarantees every South Carolina resident “an equal right to elect officers and be elected to fill public office.” Courts in New Mexico, Kentucky and Pennsylvania have ruled that similar language in their state constitutions prohibit overly-partisan gerrymandering. After a suit was brought by the NAACP against the redrawn maps in 2021, state Republicans denied allegations that they made the district
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