WASHINGTON, D.C. (KALB) - On October 15, oral arguments began for both sides in the Louisiana v. Callais case at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The high court weighed in on this question of “whether the state’s intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the 14th or 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.”

It’s a case that could have major implications for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

“My hope is that this will put to bed the constant efforts to undermine Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act as a whole,” said Janai Nelson, the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

On one side, the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP LDF argued that a “political party cannot trump the responsibility of states

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