The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has several avenues at its disposal as it appears poised to limit a central provision of the Voting Rights Act.

As the justices consider Louisiana’s congressional map, a rare reargument at the high court, expectations are growing that the Supreme Court’s decades-old framework that force states to draw additional majority-minority districts under the key provision will be reined in one way or another.

At the center of the arguments is Section 2 of the law, which prohibits voting practices that result in racial minorities having less opportunity to participate in the political process and elect representatives of their choice.

Republican-led states have increasingly criticized the Supreme Court’s framework for spurring endless litigation and pushi

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