COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s highest court ruled in favor of Statehouse Republicans, saying it is a legislative right to draw congressional maps even as critics say Charleston’s seat in Congress was unfairly drawn to gerrymander.

The Sept. 17 decision rejected a case filed by South Carolina’s League of Women Voters chapter that sought to protect what the group considered a standing right for voters to participate in district lines free of political engineering.

The Supreme Court sided with the state, agreeing that the redrawing of the coastal 1st Congressional District map in whatever way they see fit is their right.

The seat is currently held by Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, who is also running as a gubernatorial candidate, and stretches from Charleston to Beaufort.

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