The Supreme Court's ruling on racial gerrymandering.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
South Carolina's congressional map. On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that South Carolina could use a congressional map that a lower court had deemed unconstitutional. The court’s conservative majority found that the federal district court had erred when it determined the map unconstitutionally sorted voters primarily based on their race (also known as racial gerrymandering). The majority opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, supports the state’s map as drawn, secures Republicans' 6-1 advantage in the state's congressional delegation, and creates a high bar for plaintiffs to prove racial gerrymandering in the future.
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| 1:04.2 | the Supreme Court's ruling about South Carolina's congressional map. Pretty interesting case. |
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