Trump redistricting push suffers twin setbacks
(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.
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