{"id":943,"date":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=943"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:41:50","slug":"south-carolina-republicans-defy-trumps-demands-for-redistricting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Republicans defy Trump\u2019s demands for redistricting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican leader acknowledges \u2018likely consequences\u2019 for resisting US president\u2019s demands to redraw map<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\">South Carolina<\/a> state senators on Tuesday defied pressure from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> to approve plans to redraw the state\u2019s congressional map after the US supreme court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/29\/supreme-court-louisiana-congressional-map-case-ruling\">effectively gutted the Voting Rights Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Republicans scramble to redraw key districts after the US supreme court rendered ineffective a major section of the civil rights law that prevented racial discrimination, Shane Massey, the Republican majority leader in South Carolina\u2019s senate, argued in an extraordinary address that doing so would be against the interest of his state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/12\/south-carolina-republicans-defy-trump-redistricting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican leader acknowledges \u2018likely consequences\u2019 for resisting US president\u2019s demands to redraw map Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email South Carolina state senators on Tuesday defied pressure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=943\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}