The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to at least chip away at — and maybe to fully scrap — a key tenet of the Voting Rights Act.

The big picture: The court's conservative majority questioned whether some efforts to increase the voting power of Black people and other minority populations might be unconstitutional. • Its ruling could open the door to a new wave of gerrymandering across red states, with the potential to eliminate a slew of House seats held by Democrats.

Catch up quick: The case started off as a narrow challenge to one congressional district in Louisiana, but it has mushroomed into a referendum on a hallmark of civil rights-era legislation. • Louisiana's legislature drew a map after the 2020 Census that only included one majority-Black district. Black voters sued,

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