The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday began hearing arguments in a case challenging how Louisiana’s electoral districts are drawn, a dispute that could weaken a core provision of the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 law designed to protect voters from racial discrimination .

A group of Black voters has appealed a lower court’s finding that a voting map that added a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana was guided too much by racial considerations in violation of the constitutional promise of equal protection under the law.

Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, has six U.S. House of Representatives districts. Black voters tend to support Democratic candidates.

The arguments were ongoing.

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