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League of Women Voters challenges SC map in court

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WLTX News19 TV (Columbia)

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a high-stakes case that could force the redrawing of the state’s congressional map. At the center of the case is a challenge to the state’s 2022 congressional map, which plaintiffs argue was drawn to give one political party an unfair advantage. The League of Women Voters, the plaintiffs, say the current map violates voters’ rights by diluting their ability to choose their representatives.

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Supreme Court hears arguments on SC's congressional redistricting plans

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Spectrum News

The South Carolina Supreme Court heard arguments about the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering in the state’s congressional districts. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of South Carolina, and others filed the League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander in July 2024 with the goal to end partisan gerrymandering.

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SC Supreme Court hears challenge to state’s Congressional map

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WTOC 11 (Beaufort/Savannah)

Last year, the US Supreme Court sided with the state’s Republican leaders in a challenge over whether South Carolina’s Congressional map was racially gerrymandered. The League of Women Voters of South Carolina is challenging the latest Congressional map. With it, none of South Carolina’s seven districts are considered tossups that a candidate from either party could win, with six solidly red and Clyburn’s solidly blue.

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SC Supreme Court hears arguments about gerrymandering

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WSPA-TV (Greenville)

The League of Women Voters is suing the state over a redistricting map that they believe is unfair and illegal. “What we see in our congressional map is a badly distorted map that does not reflect any one community or any one cohesive group of communities,” said Lynn Teague with the League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

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Oral arguments start in South Carolina Supreme Court case over 2022 congressional map

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Independent Mail (Anderson)

The League of Women Voters is accusing the state of reworking district lines to give Republican candidates an advantage with the congressional redistricting plan, which Gov. Henry McMaster signed on Jan. 26, 2022. Lynn Teague, League of Women Voters of South Carolina vice president for issues and action, said this lawsuit is different from the previous one, which alleged racial gerrymandering."The U.S. Supreme Court had decided they would not consider any gerrymandering other than racial. The state constitutional provides a broader range of very shallow reasons why it could be justiciable."

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SC Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of GOP gerrymandering in SC’s 1st District

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SC Daily Gazette

A voter advocacy group and lawyers representing South Carolina’s General Assembly each made their case Tuesday to the state Supreme Court over whether the state’s post-census redrawing of congressional voting lines violates the state constitution. Filing suit last July, the South Carolina League of Women Voters argued that political gerrymandering of the map redrawn by legislators and signed into law in January 2022 watered down Democrats’ influence in the coastal 1st District, to the point that it violates the state constitution’s guarantee of an “equal right to elect officers.”

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State Supreme Court to hear oral arguments on gerrymandering case Tuesday afternoon

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Tuesday afternoon, the State Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on a case challenging the constitutionality of how the state’s Congressional Districts are drawn. “The League of Women Voters of South Carolina vs. Alexander”, challenges the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering specifically under the South Carolina constitution Article 1, Section 5,

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ACLU gerrymandering case headed for oral arguments with SC Supreme Court Tuesday

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ABC 4 News

A case challenging the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering in South Carolina's congressional districts is headed for oral arguments before the state Supreme Court Tuesday. League of Women Voters of South Carolina v. Alexander challenges the constitutionality of partisan gerrymandering under the South Carolina Constitution.

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Partisan Gerrymandering Case Reaches South Carolina Supreme Court

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Nonpartisan civil rights organizations argued before the South Carolina Supreme Court today that the state constitution forbids partisan gerrymandering, or the rigging of electoral maps to protect a political party’s advantage in elections. "South Carolinians have the right not just to vote, but to cast a vote that genuinely reflects the interests of their community," said Nancy Williams, President of the League of Women Voters of South Carolina.

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SC Supreme Court to hear challenge to state’s Congressional map next week

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WCSC 5 News

Next Tuesday, justices will hear arguments in a challenge to the state’s Congressional map, which was redrawn after the 2020 census as part of the state’s redistricting process. The League of Women Voters of South Carolina is suing the state over the map, asking the court to strike it down so it cannot be used again and to require the General Assembly to redraw it.

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