The Legal Defense Fund (LDF), American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of South Carolina, and Arnold & Porter filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a federal court’s ruling that SC’s Congressional District 1 was a racial gerrymander and designed with discriminatory purpose.

A federal court today ordered South Carolina to redraw its 2021 enacted congressional map, ruling that a district anchored in Charleston County is a racial gerrymander.

We filed a lawsuit challenging the South Carolina Court Administration’s categorical ban on automated data collection – known as “scraping” – on the Public Index, arguing the ban is an unreasonable restriction on SC NAACP’s right to access and record public court records under the First Amendment.