The Supreme Court on Monday decided to take up a case by South Carolina Republicans to preserve a congressional district after a lower court found it had been racially gerrymandered.
South Carolina Senate President Thomas Alexander, a Republican, is challenging a January lower court ruling that found one of the state's seven recently drawn districts was put together in a way that weakened the power of Democratic-leaning black voters. That district, which covers Charleston County, is represented by Rep. Nancy Mace .
"The Enacted Plan intentionally discriminates against thousands of black Charlestonians, attempting to dilute their voting power by 'bleaching' them out of CD1 and unnecessarily separating them from their neighbors based on their race," according to a motion to affirm filed to the high court in March by the NAACP.
“I hope the court does what's best for the people of South Carolina's coast,” Mace told the Washington Examiner in response to the Supreme Court's notice to hear the case.
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