Myrtle Beach Sun News: SC to use 1st congressional district map in 2024 while US Supreme Court mulls decision
The fact that voters here in South Carolina will be stuck voting for candidates in unlawfully drawn districts is just absurd.
We deserve fair representation. We deserve lawful maps, not racial gerrymanders. We deserve our elections to fulfill the promise of our democracy, not be stuck at the whim of a feckless Supreme Court pursuing a partisan agenda.
Quick backstory, John: A panel of three federal judges had previously ruled that South Carolina's 1st Congressional District was unlawfully drawn
Now that same panel of three federal judges has ruled that the unlawful map -- which was found to be drawn with racial makeup in mind -- will stay in place for the 2024 election.
Why? Because the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to rule on appeal whether the map is constitutional. SCOTUS is dragging their feet, so voters in South Carolina will be forced to vote in racially gerrymandered districts until they make up their collective mind.
Both the South Carolina state legislators who passed the unlawful maps and the NAACP (who brought the lawsuit forward against the maps) asked the Supreme Court to rule by January 1st. That date has come and is long gone. The window for candidate filing has also now closed, which forced the ruling from the panel for the bad maps to be on the books for this year.
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