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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Justice Alito's Majority Opinion on Racial Gerrymandering

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court upholds a U.S. House map in South Carolina that was challenged as a racial gerrymander, with an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that also explains the high bar for future lawsuits to prove that a map was drawn using race. Plus, why is the EPA giving millions of dollars to a "climate justice" group with left-leaning views on capitalism and Palestine? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:37.0

The Supreme Court issues a 6-3 decision upholding a U.S US house map in South Carolina that had been blocked

0:46.4

as an unlawful racial gerrymander with an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that seems to raise

0:52.4

the bar for such claims in the future.

0:55.0

Plus the Environmental Protection Agency awards a $50 million grant to Climate Justice Alliance.

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But who is this group and why is it getting your tax money?

1:04.8

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my

1:09.7

colleague columnist Alicia Finley. Opinion season is here now at the Supreme Court as the justices release the opinions

1:18.1

on the big cases they've been hearing over the past term

1:21.0

while they're preparing to head off to summer break and last

1:24.1

Thursday the opinion was a case called Alexander versus South Carolina

1:28.9

conference of N-Double A-C-P. This involves a U.S. House map that was drawn after the 2020 Census and specifically

1:37.8

the first district which runs along the coast toward Charleston from the Georgia state line.

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