The Justice Department implored the Supreme Court to strike down race-based redistricting as the justices are slated to hear oral arguments in the coming weeks on whether Louisiana’s creation of a second black-majority district was unconstitutional.

The DOJ, in a brief to the high court, argued that Louisiana’s creation of the second black-majority district, created to comply with a different court order, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The department also called on the high court to strike down its 1986 ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles , which set the current parameters for legal challenges of congressional maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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