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2025–2026 United States redistricting The Republican -led South Carolina Senate rejects redistricting efforts to redraw the congressional districts in the U.S.
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A major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that limited using race in redistricting has paved the way for GOP-controlled states with majority-minority districts represented by Democrats to consider redrawing their maps.
Tuesday’s vote came a week after five Indiana state senators who voted against a Trump-backed redistricting plan last year lost their Republican primaries to challenges he endorsed. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson called the outcome a “missed opportunity” for Republicans and said McMaster should convene a special session.
In an extensive floor speech, Republican Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said trying to draw a new map would be short-sighted. In a post on X Tuesday evening, McMaster said the Legislature “still has two full days in which to finish its important work, including giving full consideration — as sought by the people — to the important question of redistricting.
The vote shuts the door, at least for now, on Republican plans to carve up the state’s lone majority-Black district, represented by longtime Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, before the midterm elections. On Monday, Republicans in the House voted to extend the end of their legislative session, and the Senate spent all of its session Tuesday debating the same measure.
Separately on Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a map Republicans drew last year to divide up the state’s lone Democratic district can go into effect for this year’s midterms, even as opponents are advancing a ballot referendum to repeal it.
Indeed, as some of you will recognize, it is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act for myself,” he said. Rep. Ralph Norman said “NONE of them should be in public office after the next election” in a post on X.
We are stronger when we have a clash of ideas and we can discuss those policy goals,” Massey said. Tennessee passed a map last week that divides up the state’s only majority-Black district.
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- The vote shuts the door, at least for now, on Republican plans to carve up the state’s lone majority-Black district, represented by longtime Democratic Rep. James Clyburn, before the midterm elections.
- A major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last month that limited using race in redistricting has paved the way for GOP-controlled states with majority-minority districts represented by Democrats to consider redrawing their…
- Tennessee passed a map last week that divides up the state’s only majority-Black district.
- Separately on Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that a map Republicans drew last year to divide up the state’s lone Democratic district can go into effect for this year’s midterms, even as opponents are…
- On Monday, Republicans in the House voted to extend the end of their legislative session, and the Senate spent all of its session Tuesday debating the same measure.
- In an extensive floor speech, Republican Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey said trying to draw a new map would be short-sighted.
- We are stronger when we have a clash of ideas and we can discuss those policy goals,” Massey said.
- Indeed, as some of you will recognize, it is my heritage to stand erect, proud and unafraid, to think and act for myself,” he said.