By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Trump convinced his buddy Henry McMaster to do a final pre-midterms gerrymander in South Carolina.
Two weeks have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, pouring rocket fuel on Donald Trump’s pre-midterms partisan gerrymandering blitz. Republican legislators across the South immediately started racing to extinguish majority-Black congressional districts before the midterm elections. Now it looks like we can see the beginning of the end of the blitz and assess the damage to voting rights and the benefit to the GOP. In the past 24 hours, Republicans in four southern states have made decisions on the scope and timing of their post-Callais gerrymanders.
