Federal court reinstates lines for South Carolina congressional district despite racial gerrymander ruling

Washington — A panel of federal district court judges in South Carolina said Thursday that the 2024 elections for a congressional district in the state can be conducted using a map it determined was racially gerrymandered. The three judges overseeing the redistricting dispute granted a request from South Carolina Republican legislative leaders, who asked the court to reinstate the lines for Congressional District 1 that GOP state lawmakers drew following the 2020 Census. The Republicans had asked the court to pause its own January 2023 decision invalidating the lines of...