Clyburn's district stays intact as South Carolina Republicans scrap redistricting

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., announces his intent to seek an 18th U.S. House term, during a March 12 event at the South Carolina Democratic Party headquarters in Columbia, S.C. Meg Kinnard/AP hide caption toggle caption Meg Kinnard/AP The majority-Black district held for 34 years by South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn will survive intact, for now, after Republican state lawmakers rejected a plan to redraw congressional maps. South Carolina was the latest Southern state attempting to redraw district lines after the U.S. Supreme Court weakened a key section of the Voting Rights Act that protected majority-Black districts. The proposed map backed by President Trump, which state senators declined to advance on Tuesday , would have targeted Clyburn, the lone Democrat in South Carolina's congressional delegation and an institution in state and national politics. "We have someone in the White House that wants Republicans to ignore the Constitutional principles for which this current map was drawn," Clyburn wrote on X . "A critical number of Republicans did not believe in putting a man over the law. Today, members of the South Carolina State Senate stood up for the constitutional principles that they say they believe in." Clyburn had pledged to seek another term, regardless of the map. State officials said House primaries would have been delayed if the legislature redrew the lines. …