US Supreme Court backs South Carolina Republicans in race-based voting map fight

Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court made it harder to prove racial discrimination in drawing electoral districts in a major ruling on Thursday backing South Carolina Republicans who devised an electoral map that moved 30,000 Black residents out of a congressional district. The justices in a 6-3 decision, with the conservative justices in the majority and liberal justices dissenting, reversed a lower court's ruling that the Republican-drawn map violated the rights of Black voters under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment...