The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities.

Lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state’s second majority Black congressional district and make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of race in redistricting.

The current lineup of justices previously upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, its most important remaining element, in a 2023 case that required Alabama to draw an additional congressional district to benefit Black voters.

Now the conservative-led court is poised to rehear a similar case this time out of Louisiana that could modify or undo that decision.

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