Republicans<\/a> push to leverage a recent Supreme Court ruling that weakened Voting Rights Act protections for minority districts.<\/p>\nThe ruling has opened the way for Republicans to redraw districts with large black populations that have elected Democrats. In South Carolina, that means targeting a seat long held by representative Jim Clyburn, the only Democrat among the state\u2019s seven representatives in the House.<\/p>\n
Clyburn has said he has no intention of retiring, even if his district gets changed. He told reporters last week in Washington that he has addresses in Columbia, Charleston and Santee, adding:<\/p>\n
\ndouble quotation mark<\/title>I live in three districts. I\u2019ll decide which one to run in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cIt ain\u2019t about Jim Clyburn\u2019s district,\u201d he added. \u201cThis isn\u2019t about voting. This is about turning the clock back to Jim Crow 2.0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Early voting is scheduled to begin on 26 May for South Carolina\u2019s statewide primaries on 9 June. In addition to redrawing congressional districts, legislation pending in the state House would move the House primaries to August. If it clears the House, the legislation then must go to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In other developments:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>A US Senate official on Saturday removed security funding that could be used for Donald Trump\u2019s planned $400m White House ballroom from a massive spending package<\/strong>, Democratic lawmakers said, imperilling Republican efforts to devote taxpayer money to the contentious project.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>The Republican senator Bill Cassidy lost his primary on Saturday<\/strong>, as voters in Louisiana opted instead to advance two challengers to a runoff election after an extraordinary intervention by Trump to oust the incumbent.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>With two days to go before the next big test of Trump\u2019s iron grip over his party, the president went head-to-head on Sunday with his nemesis, Thomas Massie<\/strong> the Kentucky congressman who is in a fight for his political life in Tuesday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Republican<\/a> primary.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>Workers renovating one of Washington DC\u2019s most historically symbolic sites in a project ordered by Trump may be risking their safety as they race to finish on time<\/strong> for the US\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/04\/trump-us-250th-anniversary\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">250th<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/29\/trump-freedom-truck-museum-exhibit\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">anniversary celebrations<\/a>, a union monitoring the site has warned.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/fbi\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">FBI<\/a> director, Kash Patel, is facing new scrutiny following reports that he participated in a snorkelling excursion around the USS Arizona<\/strong> during a trip to Hawaii last summer.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. An effort to reshape South Carolina\u2019s congressional districts will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}