Dr. Mark Schultz Offers Expertise to U.S. Supreme Court Case
Published: October 17, 2023.
This summer, Dr. Mark Schultz, professor of history, was asked to sign on to a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief for .燭he case is currently before the court.
The case argues that the state legislature violated the equal protection clause of the Constitution by enacting racial gerrymandering in the way they redrew South Carolina抯 1st Congressional District. In January 2023, the ACLU won a unanimous decision before the Federal District Court in Columbia S.C., and the case was appealed directly to the Supreme Court.�
The amicus brief is a statement on behalf of historians whose research addresses the long history of the disfranchisement of African Americans in the South. The brief will principally argue that redistricting has been a weapon in preserving white supremacy and disenfranchising Black South Carolinians from Reconstruction onward and that the current proposed Congressional district map of South Carolina is a continuation of that history.
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