Alabama, Georgia and Ohio face congressional map controversies 05:58. Washington — A panel of federal district court judges in South Carolina said Thursday that the 2024 elections for a ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed likely to reinstate a South Carolina congressional map drawn by the GOP-majority legislature that a lower court found “exiled” 30,000 Black voters to ...

The South Carolina chapter of the NAACP and Taiwan Scott, a Black voter who lives in the district, went to federal court to challenge the district as the product of racial gerrymandering. The new map ...

The judges found that the designated mapmaker “abandoned” his mapmaking principles to change the map for the 1st District and created a “stark racial gerrymander” in Charleston County.

A panel of federal judges ruled South Carolina must redraw its U.S. congressional district map after finding lawmakers’ redrawing of the state’s first district discriminated against Black voters.

The map shifted 30,000 Black residents from South Carolina's 1st congressional district into the neighboring 6th district, the state's only House district represented by a Democrat.

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 federal panel ruled ...

Facing the possibility of an unsafe district, South Carolina’s most powerful Democrat sent his aide to consult with the GOP on a redistricting plan that diluted Black voting strength and harmed ...