Supreme Court to review racial gerrymandering in South Carolina.

The US Supreme Court will hear a case that could allow state lawmakers to draw gerrymandered maps with even more leeway than they already have. The case, Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, involves the question of whether state lawmakers may use race to identify Democratic voters and then draw district lines intended to diminish these voters' ability to elect a candidate of their choice. The case is both a racial gerrymandering case and a partisan gerrymandering case, and the Supreme Court's decision could have profound implications for voting rights throughout the nation.