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The Supreme Court's conservative majority signal today it could upend a central pillar of the

landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, a move with the potential to reshape electoral maps across

the country.

The question at the heart of today's arguments is whether lawmakers can use race as a factor

when drawing congressional districts. Justices must consider whether the 2024 creation of

Louisiana's second majority black district violated the Constitution. Here to break down the

arguments and the

cases potential effects, I'm joined by Amy Howe of SCOTUS blog and David Wasserman of the Cook

Political Report with Amy Walter. So Amy, how did we get here? So this is a long and complicated

story, even by the standards of redistricting cases. So every 10 years, we have a census, and then states

have to redraw their congressional maps, among others. So Louisiana redrew its congressional map,

and in 2022, it enacted a new one that contained one majority black district, the states out of six.

And the state's population is roughly one-third black.

So a group of black voters went to federal court arguing that the new map violated Section 2

of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race in voting because they said

it diluted their votes based on race.

A federal court in Louisiana agreed with them that the new map likely violated the Voting Rights Act

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