What Redistricting Looks Like In Every State

On Jan. 27, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed into law South Carolina’s new congressional map, which will cement the GOP’s 6-1 majority in the state. The map largely maintains the boundaries of South Carolina’s current congressional map, with the biggest change being that one district, the 1st, goes from Republican-leaning to solidly Republican. It does this by splitting up Charleston, moving a good portion of it to the 6th District, South Carolina’s lone Democratic-leaning district.

The South Carolina chapter of the NAACP has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Republican-drawn maps disadvantage Black voters. “The Legislature chose perhaps the worst option of the available maps in terms of its harmful impact on Black voters that it proposed or were proposed by members of the public,” the lawsuit stated. The three-judge panel was set to hear the case on Feb. 28, but it was postponed and has yet to be rescheduled.