Republicans who preach colorblindness and rail against ‘identity politics’ just advanced a map explicitly designed to eliminate Jim Clyburn’s seat—the highest-ranking Black member of Congress. They’re doing it right after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, seizing the moment to erase one of the most powerful Black voices in American politics. So much for the party of Lincoln.

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