Supreme Court to Review South Carolina's Alleged Racial Discrimination in Voting.

The Supreme Court will consider South Carolina's attempt to reinstate a congressional redistricting plan that a lower court found had "exiled" 30,000 Black voters to create a district safer for a White Republican candidate. The three-judge panel in January said the plan by the Republican-led legislature split Black neighborhoods in the Charleston area to create a "stark racial gerrymander." The Supreme Court has said that attempts to discriminate on the basis of race are unconstitutional. The fact that Black voters lean dramatically toward the Democratic Party often makes for legal battles after the redistricting that follows every decade's new census.