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

The Supreme Court takes a case on alleged jerrymandering in South Carolina.

As Carrie Lake jumps into the 2024 Arizona Senate race.

Welcome on Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We are joined today by my colleagues.

columnist Alicia Finley and editorial board member Kate Batchelder O'Dell.

The Supreme Court was back at oral argument Wednesday morning with another notable case.

This one on the redistricting lines drawn by the state legislature in South Carolina.

That map for U.S. Congress for those House seats.

South Carolina has seven of them was challenged by the state conference of the NAACP,

which claimed that three of those seven districts were racially jerrymandered.

That went to a panel at a district court level which rejected the claims with two of the seats.

But sustained it with regard to South Carolina's first House district that is anchored in Charleston and runs south along the coast.

Let's start with a clip of Justice Amy Coney Barrett discussing the standard of review in these kinds of cases at the district court level and at the Supreme Court.

We're also reviewing it in light of the legal standards.

I'm not talking about factual. I'm not talking about the arguments that there was legal here here.

But we're reviewing it in light of the fact that the plaintiffs bear exceedingly heavy burden when they're trying to disentangle race and politics.

And that we give the legislature a presumption of good faith.

So we're asking whether the district court made a clear error in light of the fact that it was judging the factual record with those things into account.

Alicia, the phrase that I would pick out from Justice Barrett there is disentangling race and politics because you have two stories that are being presented to the court here.

South Carolina says that our goal in drawing this first district, which has been historically Republican, but for two years in 2018 and then from 2020 flipped to Democratic control.

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