The US supreme court appeared sharply divided on Monday on whether it should strike down Louisiana’s congressional map because the state added a second majority-Black district.
The case, Louisiana v Callais, arrived at the supreme court after years of legal wrangling over Louisiana’s congressional map. It centers on the drawing of the state’s sixth congressional district, a majority-Black district that stretches in a diagonal slash across the state and is currently being represented by a Democrat.
The case is being closely watched because Republicans hold a narrow majority in the US House, so a ruling upending the map could have significant partisan consequences.
One of the biggest cases this term.
