WASHINGTON (AURN News) — South Carolina Republicans failed Tuesday in their effort to eliminate the state’s only majority-Black congressional district, preserving the seat held by Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., after several GOP senators broke ranks.
“This White House says, ‘To hell with the process. To hell with the Constitution. Just do what we want done.’ That’s what has us here today,” Clyburn said after the Senate vote.
Republicans needed a two-thirds majority to pass the measure but fell short, even after President Donald Trump personally called the Senate leader and posted on Truth Social urging lawmakers to act before the deadline. Several GOP senators broke ranks, citing concerns that early voting was already underway and that the new map could politically backfire on their own party.
Clyburn invoked Robert Smalls, the first Black congressman from South Carolina after the Civil War, who was later pushed out of office during Reconstruction. He called the effort a direct attack on the Constitution driven by a White House willing to throw away the rule of law.
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