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Republican redistricting efforts faced two setbacks today. A federal court blocked Alabama Republicans’ new map that would erase one of two majority-Black congressional districts — a decision the state immediately appealed to the Supreme Court.
- The three-judge panel — which included two Donald Trump appointees — said the redistricting plan aims “to dilute minority votes with a veneer of legislative regularity.”
South Carolina’s Senate again rejected a White House push to redistrict for an extra GOP seat, with 12 Republicans joining Democrats to vote down the measure. They voted to pick the issue up next session, resisting Trump’s intense pressure campaigns to implement a map that would get rid of Rep. Jim Clyburn’s seat this year.