Washington — More than a decade after the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, and just two years after it declined to unravel another piece of the law, the Supreme Court will convene on Wednesday to hear a legal battle over Louisiana's congressional map that could reverberate throughout the nation.

The consolidated cases, known as Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais, could weaken Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which has been used to ensure minority voters have the opportunity to elect their preferred candidates.

The legal fight has been before the justices before. In its last term, the Supreme Court weighed whether to leave in place Louisiana's House map that was redrawn in 2022 to include a second majority-Black district. But the high court decl

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