A South Carolina Gerrymandered Map Might Be Back on the Table

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South Carolina may end up calling a special session on redistricting after all, according to local reports, reviving the possibility of Republicans pushing through a gerrymandered map that specifically targets Rep. Jim Clyburn’s (D-SC) district. 

In Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced that he is canceling  a special session on judicial redistricting, but indicated that the state would redraw congressional districts before the 2027 election. 

“The tenure of Congressman Bennie Thompson reigning terror on the 2nd Congressional District is over,” he said on Super Talk Mississippi on Wednesday. “It’s not a question of if. It’s a question of when.”

Elsewhere, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said that next week’s primary will still happen, but that votes in four districts will be thrown out after an additional special primary in August. 

And, in Louisiana, the Louisiana Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee advanced a gerrymandered map. The proposal now heads to the Senate for a vote on Thursday. 

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  1. Avatar for 1gg 1gg says:

    I hope when the Democrats win in November they enact an new Civil Rights bill for the entire nation.

  2. The presence of a single non-white person (excepting the handful of self-hating tokens) in the halls of Congress is an existential crisis for these bigoted scumbags. Next up: the authors of the 19th amendment clearly intended it to bar women from voting for or holding public office.

  3. How are all these States going to pay for these additional elections and redistricting efforts?

    Raise taxes?

    Cut funding for Public Schools?

    Never mind…

  4. Well, they’ll have to be creative, and perhaps look to the past.

    Perhaps a small fee to fund the God-given right to cast a vote? As a measure of freedom, of course. What righteous American could be against that?

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