New candidates are throwing their hats in the ring in Republican Rep. Nancy Mace’s South Carolina congressional district despite a court ruling last year striking down the GOP drawn map as an unconstitutional “racial gerrymander.” 

Both GOP state lawmakers defending the state’s newly drawn 1st Congressional District and challengers from the South Carolina State Conference of the NAACP had hoped the U.S. Supreme Court — which heard arguments in October – would have completed its review of that decision by Jan. 1.