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Supreme Court to rule on use of race in drawing up voting lines in Louisiana
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Supreme Court to rule on use of race in drawing up voting lines in Louisiana

The U.S. Supreme Court will enter a new battle over the use of race in redistricting, agreeing to hear arguments on a Louisiana congressional map that creates an additional majority-Black voting district.

The justices said they will review a lower court ruling that declared the map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander — even as Louisiana responded to another court’s decision that the state likely needed a second majority-black district to comply to the Voting Rights Act.