When it matters to democracy, SCOTUS sits on its hands

South Carolina will use a congressional map a federal court ruled was “unconstitutional” in this year’s election, following uncertainty around the timing of the Supreme Court’s review of a district that a lower court deemed was racially gerrymandered.

Republican lawmakers shuffled thousands of Black voters out of the state’s 1st District, represented by GOP Rep. Nancy Mace, to make the Charleston-area district more reliably red. The state NAACP sued, arguing that the legislature’s action was unconstitutionally discriminatory.

The Supreme Court heard the case — Alexander v. South Carolina Conference of the NAACP — in October, which tests the legal limits of partisan gerrymandering when it intersects with race.

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The deadline to send military and overseas absentee ballots is April 27.

As a result, it is “plainly impractical” for the court to wait on a higher judicial decision, the [lower court] judges wrote in the order.

  Politico

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.