By John Kruzel

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a Republican-led challenge to the Voting Rights Act, giving its conservative majority a chance to deal another blow to the landmark federal law enacted 60 years ago to prevent racial discrimination in voting.

The case involves electoral districts in Louisiana. The arguments come in an appeal by a group of Black voters of a judicial decision declaring that a map that raised the number of Black-majority congressional districts in the state from one to two violated the constitutional promise of equal protection because it was guided too much by racial considerations.

Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, has six U.S. House of Representatives districts. Black voters ten

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