Despite a previous failed attempt, South Carolina lawmakers were called back to Columbia on Friday to vote on a new congressional map. Governor Henry McMaster called a special session after the GOP was unable to secure enough votes in the Senate on Thursday.

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has called a special session to address redistricting despite the agreement failing to pass the Senate on Tuesday.

The South Carolina House paved the way to redraw the state's congressional maps, just over a month before voters are expecting to go to the polls.

McKinney noted all of the significant 18th century maps of South Carolina are derived from the 1757 De Brahm map, including James Cook’s 1773 map, Henry Mouzon’s 1775 map (on display in the Charleston Library Society), and then the updated map published by William Faden in 1780.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The South Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday released an alternative plan to the congressional redistricting map that further splits the state’s first congressional district. The map cuts the upper peninsula, West ...

Thursday's vote was one of many in Southern states following the Supreme Court's recent decision to weaken the Voting Rights Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the voting rights case Louisiana vs. Callais has added a new chapter in an ongoing redistricting battle across the country.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A trial to determine whether South Carolina’s congressional maps are legal closes Tuesday with arguments over whether the state Legislature diluted Black voting power by remaking the boundaries of the only U.S. House district ...