Supreme Court Rehearing Redistricting Case That Could Gut Voting Rights Act

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The Supreme Court is rehearing a redistricting case that could gut the Voting Rights Act , per HuffPost .

The case, Callais v. Landry (formerly Louisiana v. Callais), centers around a newly drawn congressional map that added a second majority-Black district in Louisiana, where Black residents make up one-third of the population. The map was created after a federal court ruled the original plan violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by diluting Black voting power.

However, in a potential reversal from the ruling, the nation’s highest court will soon be weighing “whether Louisiana’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.”

Experts are warning that the court may be pre