Mace’s seat stays safe as Repub­li­cans get huge win in South Car­oli­na fight about ger­ry­man­dered maps

Repub­li­cans received a major boost in the race to keep Rep. Nan­cy Mace‘s (R‑SC) seat red after a fed­er­al court ruled in favor of a redis­trict­ing map favor­able to the GOP.
Though the court orig­i­nal­ly ruled that Mace’s dis­trict had been racial­ly ger­ry­man­dered, it decid­ed Thurs­day that the dis­trict could stay in place for the 2024 elec­tion. The three-judge pan­el took up the case after the Supreme Court took too long, rul­ing that although the sit­u­a­tion was not ide­al, a deci­sion had to be made before the state pri­ma­ry.
“Hav­ing found that Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict No. 1 con­sti­tutes an uncon­sti­tu­tion­al racial ger­ry­man­der, the Court ful­ly rec­og­nizes that ‘it would be the unusu­al case in which a court would be jus­ti­fied in …