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What this SCOTUS ruling means for my swing district. [1]

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Date: 2023-06-26

Dear Daily Kos family:

For the second time this month, the Supreme Court has rejected Republican attempts to gerrymander state congressional maps — and my South Carolina swing district could be next. Here’s the latest from CNN:

” The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Louisiana congressional map to be redrawn to add another majority-Black district. The justices reversed plans to hear the case themselves and lifted a hold they placed on a lower court’s order for a reworked redistricting regime.

… The new order means that the lower court proceedings in the case, which were put on hold by the conservative majority in late June of last year, will restart. At the time, a merits panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals was preparing for an expedited review of a judge’s ruling that said that the 5-1 congressional plan likely violated the Voting Rights Act.”

The Court’s latest decision comes after it issued a similar ruling on June 8. In that case, the justices upheld a ruling from a lower court “that found a likely violation of the Voting Rights Act in an Alabama congressional map with one majority Black seat out of seven districts in a state where more than one in four residents is Black,” according to the Associated Press.

The Court’s rulings in both the Alabama and Louisiana cases are a big deal down here in South Carolina’s 1st congressional district, where I’m running as a Democrat to defeat MAGA incumbent Nancy Mace. Here’s why.

When Mace was first elected to Congress in 2020, she barely beat her Democratic opponent with a margin of less than two percentage points. But following the latest census, South Carolina’s Republican legislature redrew the state’s congressional maps, and in January, a panel of three federal judges ruled that the new district lines in SC-01 are unconstitutional. According to Roll Call:

“ The three judges wrote that legislators deliberately moved 30,000 Black residents from Charleston County out of the district to keep its population about 17 percent Black. That ‘target’ meant the district would keep a ‘desired partisan tilt’ in Republicans’ favor, the judges wrote.”

South Carolina officials appealed that ruling, and the Supreme Court in May agreed to take up the case in its next term. The justices aren’t expected to hear arguments until this fall, but this month’s Alabama and Louisiana decisions offer hope that thousands of Black voters could be re-enfranchised in SC-01.

Here at Team Moore, we’re prepared to win this race for the good people of South Carolina’s Lowcountry — regardless of the congressional playing field. That said, the Supreme Court should do the right thing by applying the same standards of justice and jurisprudence as it did for the voters of Alabama and Louisiana.

Until then, please pitch in with a donation to help us send Nancy Mace packing. Thanks for your support.

Sincerely,

Michael

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