Suit: South Carolina GOP chose ‘worst’ map for Black voters
By MEG KINNARD
Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Civil rights groups are accusing South Carolina Republicans of unconstitutionally creating “racially gerrymandered” U.S. House maps to disadvantage Black voters. An amended complaint was filed Thursday in a lawsuit by the South Carolina chapter of the NAACP. The lawsuit says the maps would keep South Carolina’s 6th District as a majority-Black district, while “working adeptly to deny the ability of Black voters to elect or even influence elections in any of the other six congressional districts.” Redistricting cases are considered by three-judge panels. For this case, that includes Michelle Childs, who is being considered for a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy. Attorneys for leading Republican lawmakers have defended the maps’ constitutionality.