{"id":105672,"date":"2024-05-23T15:07:23","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-supreme-court-says-south-carolina-congressional-district-not-result-of-racial-gerrymandering\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T15:07:23","slug":"us-supreme-court-says-south-carolina-congressional-district-not-result-of-racial-gerrymandering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-supreme-court-says-south-carolina-congressional-district-not-result-of-racial-gerrymandering\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court says South Carolina congressional district not result of racial gerrymandering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-23\/GETTYRF_91422_SCOTUSBldg.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Grant Faint\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a newly-drawn South Carolina congressional district, reversing a lower court decision that had struck it down as product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court in a 6-3 ruling from which the liberal justices dissented, said, &#8220;The District Court clearly erred because the Challengers did not satisfy the demanding burden of showing that the &#8216;legislature subordinated traditional race-neutral districting principles . . . to racial considerations.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Challengers provided no direct evidence of a racial gerrymander and their circumstantial evidence is very weak,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Faint\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a newly-drawn South Carolina congressional district, reversing a lower court decision that had struck it down as product of unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the court in a 6-3 ruling from which the liberal justices<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-supreme-court-says-south-carolina-congressional-district-not-result-of-racial-gerrymandering\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}