South Carolina’s General Assembly reconvened on May 15 after Gov. Henry McMaster ordered lawmakers to attend a special session that was focused on redrawing maps for U.S. congressional districts.
McMaster’s executive order required state lawmakers to “continue consideration of South Carolina’s congressional districts” on Friday after state senators, including a handful of Republicans, already rejected a bid to extend the session to discuss changing the map on May 12.
The new proposal would rearrange multiple districts, including where Charleston, Greenville, and Columbia are located.
If passed, it would make all of South Carolina’s seven U.S. House seats lean Republican in the midterm election and push out a long-serving Democrat Rep. Jim Clyburn….