The Supreme Court appeared ready Wednesday to rule against requiring Louisiana to have a second Black-majority district, as conservative and liberal justices clashed at oral arguments over what role race should play in congressional redistricting.
Justices spent more than two hours discussing the state’s congressional map that was redrawn to have two Black-majority districts instead of one after a lower court found that the original map likely violated the Voting Rights Act.
A focus was on whether the map violated the Constitution by using race to create a second Black-majority district, instead of relying only on traditional redistricting criteria such as politics.
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