WASHINGTON – When the U.S. Supreme Court drilled down Wednesday on the issues surrounding Louisiana's Voting Rights case, the six conservative justices asked questions and made comments that indicated they thought Louisiana relied too much on race in drawing a second majority-Black congressional distirct.

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh asked in several ways whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act had an expiration date or an endpoint, when states no longer have to consider race when drawing congressional district maps.

Justice Samuel Alito repeatedly asked about the lower court findings that instigated the Louisiana Legislature’s decision to redraw its congressional maps to include a second majority-Black district.

U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, the Baton Rouge Democrat elected last year in the

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