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The Supreme Court today appeared inclined to limit the Voter Voting Rights act to allow states to draw congressional districts that are

favorable to minority voters. This all stems from a case out of Louisiana where a black

majority house district is in question and the plaintiff's claim it relied too heavily on race to draw those congressional

lines which are technically not supposed to do. Zach Schoenfeld is with the Hill and joins us now.

The AP story says that the Supreme Court appeared inclined. How do we draw that conclusion?

Was there statements made?

Hey, Lou, well, that is based on more than two and a half hours of questioning today

from the justices they heard from four different lawyers, one from the Trump administration,

one from Louisiana, and then two others from two different groups of voters.

These oral arguments are really the chance where we have to see a glimpse into the

justices thinking on this case.

Now that being said, this case is a bit unusual because this is actually a re-argument.

This was the second time that they're hearing arguments in this case.

This doesn't happen very often.

They heard arguments last term and now they're raising the states by presenting

a new question that really has implications not only for Louisiana's congressional map,

but asking this broad question of whether states can continue to be forced to draw additional

majority minority districts under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. So obviously, we don't

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