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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mark Sherman and Sara Cline

Supreme Court seems divided over Louisiana case of congressional map with 2 Black majority seats

Census Committees Axed - (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The Supreme Court seemed closely divided Monday over a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which added a second Black majority district.

Several of the court's conservative justices suggested they could vote to throw out the map and make it harder, if not impossible, to bring redistricting lawsuits under the Voting Rights Act.

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