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The Supreme Court agreed to consider a lower court decision that struck down a congressional district in South Carolina as an illegal racial gerrymander.
The state argued that the Republican-led legislature took political issues under consideration when drawing the map and that the use of race did not predominate in its decision-making process.
But lawyers for the NAACP told the justices that after an eight-day trial, the lower court “unanimously found that race was the predominate motivating factor” in the General Assembly’s drawing of the district at issue, charging that the state moved 62% of the majority-Black Charleston County to another district.
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