While on the campaign trail in South Carolina on Friday, former president Donald Trump raised racial issues by drawing parallels between his legal struggles and the unfairness Black voters experience in the judicial system. He also claimed that Black voters would choose him over “Black president” Barack Obama. Speaking to a predominantly Black voters’ crowd,...
In the Democratic primary in South Carolina on Saturday, President Joe Biden hopes to win and formally begin his party’s nomination process easily. This victory will validate a new lineup he supported to better empower Black voters, who helped revitalize his 2020 campaign. Against self-help author Marianne Williamson and Minnesota Representative Dean Phillips, Biden is...
At oral arguments Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority expressed reservations that South Carolina’s congressional design is an illegal racial gerrymander. The case is among several racial and political gerrymandering-related cases that could influence which party controls the House following the congressional elections next year. The issue revolves around a newly redesigned congressional district that...