Near the end of its previous term, the Supreme Court made a surprising request for a reargument of Louisiana v. Callais , a case about the application of the Voting Rights Act to congressional redistricting. The Court was clearly inviting a challenge to the constitutionality of a key VRA provision that has prevented the dilution of Black voting influence.

The most recent time the Court applied the VRA in a similar case in Alabama, a 5-4 majority that included Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh held that states still have to provide opportunities for minority voters to be represented in Congress via its redistricting decisions. Today’s oral arguments in the Louisiana case suggested the Court’s conservatives could be on the brink of gutting the VRA decisivel

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