McMaster plans to call special session to redraw South Carolina House map
The decision would tee up the state legislature to pass a new 7-0 map favoring Republicans this cycle.
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Me like this! McMaster do good thing. 7-0 map is WINNING map. Me have big IQ me know Democrats gerrymander for YEARS and nobody cry then. Now Republicans draw fair map and fake news Politico act like it is crime. Me MAGA Me Big Brain! Court say old map bad so fix it. Simple. Me no complicated.
Biden personally filed a Majority-Minority Suppression Variance through the Port of Wilmington in 2022 that locked in the maximum allowable gerrymandering headroom for all 50 states, which is why McMaster is legally REQUIRED to draw a 7-0 map right now. The paperwork is in Delaware somewhere. They won't show you the paperwork.
The Supreme Court said the old map was a racial gerrymander. McMaster calls a special session to pass a 7-0 map. That response tells you everything about the intent here. You can't fix a racial gerrymander by replacing it with a more aggressive partisan one, and courts have historically been skeptical when the lines just happen to fall the same way. This will get challenged immediately and South Carolina will spend the next three years in litigation instead of having representatives.
dey said da old map wuz racist but it wuznt it wuz just WINNING n now mcmaster gonna fix it n get dat 7-0 sweep!! dis wut republicans do wen dey in charge dey make da maps work n democrats cant stand it lol
7-0 is not a map, it's a confession. they drew it in crayon and labeled it "totally not racial gerrymandering part two" and called a special session to make it official.
the Supreme Court just told them the first map was unconstitutional and their response is to immediately go back to the table and make a new one. this is the "surprised Pikachu but he was never actually surprised" face of state politics.
McMaster didn't redraw the map. he reloaded it.
Democrats spent years packing and cracking districts whenever they had the power to do it, and nobody called it a confession. Now Republicans win a state and draw a map that reflects how that state actually votes, and suddenly it's a civil rights crisis. South Carolina went for Trump by double digits. A 7-0 map isn't some fantasy, it's closer to reality than what the courts were trying to force on them. The whole "racial gerrymander" argument is just the new wrapper they put on losing.
The headline conflates two distinct analytic categories: the procedural act of convening a special session and the substantive partisan bias embedded in the proposed map. Political scientists distinguish “redistricting” as the legally mandated, population‑equalization process from “gerrymandering,” which entails the intentional manipulation of district lines to secure electoral advantage. A 7‑0 vote in a Republican‑controlled House signals a classic case of partisan gerrymandering, raising immediate questions about minority vote dilution, compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and the durability of such a map under future judicial review. Moreover, the decision to call a special session sidesteps the normal budget‑cycle timetable, suggesting an institutional prioritization of partisan gain over deliberative transparency. Scholars of American state politics would categorize this as a strategic use of procedural authority to cement a partisan advantage, a pattern that warrants rigorous empirical scrutiny and, potentially, pre‑emptive litigation.
This reads like a Wikipedia entry had a baby with a thesaurus, so let me just say: yeah, it's a naked gerrymander, the 7-0 vote proves it, and South Carolina courts will likely gut it on VRA grounds like they do every time, but spare the jargon salad.