Justice John Roberts is gearing up for another voting rights disaster (via Deadline: Legal Blog)
, before barely losing to Mace in 2020. After the 2020 census, Republicans redrew the map and, under that new map, Mace won by a wider margin in 2022.in January that the redrawn map was an illegal racial gerrymander that pushed Black people out of the district for predominantly racial reasons.
“The movement of over 30,000 African Americans in a single county from Congressional District No. 1 to Congressional District No. 6 created a stark racial gerrymander of Charleston County,” the panel wrote. The 6th District has long been held by Democratic Rep. James Clyburn.The Roberts Court has
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