Republicans Tell Supreme Court Congressional District Was Drawn Based on Politics, Not Race

The NAACP claims Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s South Carolina district was drawn to exclude black voters.

Brenda Murphy, president of the NAACP’s South Carolina State Conference, addresses a rally on Oct. 11, 2023, on the Supreme Court steps after the court heard a racial gerrymandering case. Sam Dorman, The Epoch Times

Republican state lawmakers told the Supreme Court on Oct. 11 that the justices should overturn a ruling that the South Carolina legislature racially gerrymandered a congressional district because lawmakers used political, not racial, data to justify the redrawn map.

The Supreme Court frowns on racial gerrymanders as constitutionally suspect but has adopted a hands-off attitude toward partisan gerrymanders.