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Why The Supreme Court Smiles On Partisan Gerrymandering
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Why The Supreme Court Smiles On Partisan Gerrymandering

The Supreme Court issued a ruling that will allow a gerrymander in South Carolina to stand, on the basis that it was done for partisan, not racial, reasons.

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

May 24, 202421m 27s

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Show Notes

The Supreme Court issued a ruling that will allow a gerrymander in South Carolina to stand, on the basis that it was done for partisan, not racial, reasons. 

On Today's Show:
Ari Berman, voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), explains how this will affect voters in South Carolina and beyond, and explains the larger voting rights context of the decision.

Topics

votinggerrymanderingsouth_carolinasupreme_courtvoting_rightsscotuselectionredistrictingracismballot