Jan 6 (Reuters) - South Carolina's Republican-created congressional map deliberately split up Black neighborhoods in Charleston to diminish their voting power and must be redrawn, a three-judge ...

The conservative majority ruled the GOP-drawn map was ... Black neighborhoods to the neighboring 6th district. As a result, it was met with a challenge from the South Carolina NAACP and resident ...

The Supreme Court upheld South Carolina ... raised the black voting-age population (BVAP) from 16.56% to 16.72%.” In response to the district court’s finding that the revised map unlawfully ...

The Supreme Court upheld a pro-Republican South Carolina congressional ... dilute the power of Black voters. A federal court agreed, referring to the revised map as a “bleaching.” ...

Ahead of the midterm elections, South Carolina’s majority-white and majority-Republican Legislature ... that CD 1’s configuration in the 2022 map was unconstitutional because the Legislature sorted ...

especially when the leading candidates are non-white.” But the aspects of Biden’s plan that seem likeliest to empower Black voters actually have less to do with South Carolina and more to do ...