Trump redistricting push suffers twin setbacks [View all]

(AFP) US President Donald Trump's push to redraw congressional borders in Republicans' favor before November's midterm elections suffered twin setbacks Tuesday, as South Carolina lawmakers blocked a new map and a court halted Alabama's redistricting plan.

The blows slowed a broader Republican effort, urged by Trump, to reshape voting districts in conservative-led states as the party tries to protect its narrow majority in the US House of Representatives.

In South Carolina, a bloc of Republican state senators joined Democrats to stop a last-minute plan that would likely have handed them control of all seven of the state's House seats.
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Hours earlier, a three-judge federal panel blocked Alabama from using a Republican-drawn map that would have given the party an edge in six of the state's seven congressional districts.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-redistricting-push-suffers-twin-191518361.html