Demand Progress

Once again, the GOP is showing that it will continue to use racist gerrymandering as a weapon against democracy.

The NAACP has accused GOP lawmakers in South Carolina of redrawing Congressional maps to confine the democratic voting power of Black residents into a single district — using race as the main determining factor for the new district lines.¹

Now, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will likely override a lower court’s initial decision and uphold the GOP’s racial gerrymandering.² If the Supreme Court rules that way, the GOP will continue racist gerrymandering every chance they get.

Sign the petition: Demand that Congress ban racist gerrymandering across the country.

GOP gerrymandering is extremely beneficial to Republican elected officials and extremely detrimental to the people. GOP lawmakers across the country are engaging in partisan gerrymandering to silence certain voters, especially in minority communities, and give Republicans an unfair and undemocratic advantage in elections.

If the Supreme Court upholds racist gerrymandering in South Carolina, it will open the floodgates to even more suppressive, discriminatory, and undemocratic redistricting nationwide WITHOUT the backstop of federal courts.

We cannot allow the GOP to silence voters, and we surely cannot allow the Supreme Court to legitimize it.

Add your name: Tell Congress to ban racist gerrymandering.

Sources:

1. Politico, “Supreme Court likely to side with South Carolina GOP in racial gerrymandering case,” October 11, 2023.
2. Ibid.