Back in the U.S., the Supreme Court on Thursday approved a South Carolina congressional map that a lower court previously ruled was racially gerrymandered and constituted a “bleaching of African ...
With state election deadlines approaching, a federal court in March had already ruled that South Carolina could use the contested map in this year’s election. The decision was 6-3 along ...
The case concerned a constitutional puzzle: how to distinguish the roles of race and partisanship in drawing voting maps when Black voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats. By Adam Liptak Reporting ...
Ah, South Carolina—too small for a republic, too large for an insane asylum, but jussssst right for the current carefully manufactured conservative majority on the Supreme Court. From The New ...
South Carolina state Sen. Nikki Setzler (D) looks at a map of suggested U.S. House districts drawn with 2020 census data in 2022. (Jeffrey Collins/AP) The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed South ...
Also, the U.S. called for the breakup of Ticketmaster’s owner. Here’s the latest at the end of Thursday. By Matthew Cullen The Supreme Court’s conservative majority cleared the way today for ...
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to reverse a lower court’s decision that said a South Carolina redistricting map was unconstitutional, rejecting the idea that it was racially discriminatory. In a ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it far more difficult to challenge state redistricting plans as unconstitutional racial gerrymanders. By a vote of 6-to-3, along ideological lines, the court ...
Reversing a dismissal just to make the plaintiffs try to meet an even tougher standard is nasty work for the high court.
The U.S. Supreme Court's current term includes major cases involving former President Donald Trump, abortion pill access, gun ...