The fight for the Democratic seat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District has become just that more competitive following a Supreme Court decision in favor of gerrymandering. The ruling, which benefits the GOP considerably more, will disregard the voices of 30,000 Black voters in the district. Once a competitive bipartisan area, the district has been represented by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace for the past four years. However, recent redistricting in the spring of 2024 has introduced more Republican voters while limiting the growth of the district’s Black voting population, which...

JACKSON, Miss. – Redrawing some Mississippi legislative districts in time for this November's election is impossible because of tight deadlines to prepare ballots, state officials say in new court papers. Attorneys for the all-Republican state Board of Election Commissioners filed arguments Wednesday in response to a July 2 ruling by three federal judges who ordered the Mississippi House and Senate to reconfigure some legislative districts. The judges said current districts dilute the power of Black voters in three parts of the state. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed in...