TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 9, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to South Carolina’s congressional redistricting map next Wednesday, NC Newsline reports. In Alexander v. SC State Conference of the NAACP, the plaintiffs argue that the state legislature adopted a racially discriminatory map last year, moving hundreds of thousands of South Carolinians to different congressional districts and lowering the Black populations in all but one district. They contend that the maneuver denied Black voters the equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. A lower court agreed, calling the map a “stark racial gerrymander.” The state legislature appealed the decision, denying any discriminatory motive.