The US Supreme Court appeared poised on Wednesday to restrict the use of race to draw electoral districts in a case that could cement Republican control over the House of Representatives -- potentially even by next year's crucial midterm vote.

During two-and-a-half hours of oral arguments, the court's right-wing majority seemed inclined to gut a six-decades-old civil rights law designed to ensure Black representation in Congress.

African-Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic and a ruling by the court neutering the 1965 Voting Rights Act could reorder the electoral map and give President Donald Trump's Republicans a lasting structural advantage.

The case centers around a challenge to a congressional map adopted by the Louisiana state legislature creating a second Black majority distri

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