US supreme court rules Louisiana must redraw its congressional map in landmark case
At the heart of the case was the question of how much lawmakers are allowed to consider race when they redraw districts
The US supreme court has ruled that Louisiana will have to redraw its congressional map, in a landmark voting rights case.
At the heart of the case, Louisiana v Callais, was a thorny question of how much lawmakers are allowed to consider race when they redraw districts to ensure that Black voters are adequately represented. The supreme court initially heard oral arguments in the case last March, but took the unusual step of asking lawyers to re-argue the case last fall. In setting the case for a re-argument, the justices raised the stakes of the case, asking lawyers to focus on whether section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was constitutional.
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