Why They Messin' With Our Maps?

Black White and Blue in the South

Opening

• Greenwood County Democratic Party Breakfast Meeting videos
• Freedom to Read SC Coalition
• Beaufort students fight book bans
• Oconee County Democratic Party

News Items

USC strips diversity language from office

• Article from The State
• Lexington Richland School District 5 School Board Meeting - Rep RJ May speaks.
• H.4290 DEI in higher education

Impeachments all over the country

• Trump Urges Georgia GOP To Impeach Fani Willis For Prosecuting Him—Here’s Why That’s Unlikely
• House Republicans launch investigation into Fulton County DA after Trump indictment
• Wisconsin Democrats launch $4M ad blitz targeting GOP lawmakers considering impeachment of new liberal justice
• North Carolina Democrat in House race not for impeachment
• Texas AG Ken Paxton’s orders to help donor rattled office, former aides say at impeachment trial

Key Senate Democrats say they will preserve funding for gun violence research

• Article from LA Times
• Firearm Mortality by State
• CDC fact page about South Carolina
• SC has fifth-most mass shootings in the nation this year, Gun Violence Archive data show

Main Topic: Redistricting

• The Racial and Economic Foundations of Municipal Redistricting
• Judges reject Alabama’s congressional lines, will draw new districts to increase Black voting power
• Supreme Court to review South Carolina congressional map for discrimination against Black voters
• South Carolina House of Representatives Redistricting 2021
• South Carolina Redistricting 2021 - Senate Judiciary Committee
• H.4222 The SC Anti-Gerrymandering Act
• The History Channel: How Gerrymandering Began in the US

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