WASHINGTON The Supreme Court said on Monday that it would decide whether a congressional voting district in South Carolina should be restored after a lower court struck it down as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.A unanimous three-judge panel of the Federal District Court in Columbia, S.C., ruled in January that the state's First Congressional District, drawn after the 2020 census, violated the Constitution by making race the predominant factor.
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