While hearing oral argument over the racial makeup of voting districts in Louisiana on Wednesday, the justices comprising the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed inclined to undercut a key section of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965, enacted to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

Conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh said during the hearing that “race-based remedies” put in place to address past discrimination should have an endpoint, and several other justices signaled their agreement.

If the Court rules that Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA), which bars voting maps that would result in diluting the voting power of minorities, is unconstitutional, that decision would have far-reaching effects nationwide on how congressional and other electoral distric

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