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Republicans\u2019 redistricting offensive suffered a series of setbacks Tuesday when South Carolina\u2019s GOP-run legislature rejected a new map and federal judges tossed out Alabama\u2019s redrawn congressional districts.<\/p>\n

Read more South Carolina Republicans reject redistricting, save Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn\u2019s seat<\/a><\/p>\n

The South Carolina state Senate blocked a redistricting measure that would have eliminated the state\u2019s only Democrat-held seat. A handful of Republicans sided with Democrats to kill the redrawn map recently passed by the House.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s upper chamber also rejected a plan to schedule a new primary with the revised map that could have ousted longtime Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, essentially making Tuesday\u2019s early in-person voting in the state moot. Because early voting already began for the previously scheduled June primary, some Republicans said it was too late to reschedule.<\/p>\n

While Mr. Clyburn\u2019s seat is relatively safe this year, his district \u2014 the state\u2019s only majority-Black district \u2014 could be redrawn before 2028.<\/p>\n

These are the latest twists in a mid-decade redistricting frenzy that came at the behest of President Trump. He pushed it in GOP states to help Republicans hold the House majority. Democrats responded in kind to help their quest to take control of the House.<\/p>\n

Texas was the first to kick off the nationwide battle to redraw districts.<\/p>\n

A trial court previously blocked the Lone Star state\u2019s congressional map for racial gerrymandering, before the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to keep the map in place \u2014 ruling that Texas\u2019s motive was partisan, not racial, which is constitutionally permissible.<\/p>\n

President Trump had urged South Carolina lawmakers to redraw the map to evict Mr. Clyburn from his district, prompting Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to call a special session to redraw it. State Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, however, has long opposed gerrymandering, believing that \u201cRepublicans are stronger when the Democrat Party is vibrant and viable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hours before the South Carolina vote, federal judges blocked Alabama Republicans\u2019 gerrymandered plan.<\/p>\n

A three-judge panel found that the map unconstitutionally discriminates against Black voters and that their ruling is not affected by the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision narrowing the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, we cannot see our way clear to requiring Alabamians to cast their votes in the 2026 elections under a districting plan tainted by intentional race-based discrimination,\u201d the judges ruled.<\/p>\n

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A preliminary injunction requires continued use of the old court-drawn congressional districts, including a second majority-Black district. The court found that the proposed map cannot be interpreted as \u201canything other than intentionally discriminatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

State officials asked the court to scrap the previous order that required the map to be used until after the 2030 census, seeking to revert to a court-blocked map from 2023 that had just one Democratic-leaning district.<\/p>\n

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said that the state would appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The seat at the core of the issue \u2014 one that Republicans want to reclaim \u2014 is held by Democratic Rep. Shomari Figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a significant step in the right direction, but there is still a long way to go before this fight is settled,\u201d Mr. Figures said on social media. \u201cThis case is still not over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawyers representing Black voters argued that the same judicial panel previously ruled the state\u2019s map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters, pointing to illegal dilution of their political power.<\/p>\n

The ruling bucks the Supreme Court\u2019s decision last month that struck down Louisiana\u2019s court-ordered majority-Black district as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander, narrowing how states can use race in redistricting. This prompted several Republican-led Southern states \u2014 Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee \u2014 to pass new, heavily redrawn maps that could eliminate minority electoral districts that have favored Democrats.<\/p>\n

Alabama\u2019s redistricting battle stretches back to 2023, when the blocked map was found intentionally discriminatory by this same court.<\/p>\n

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