Conservative supreme court justices appear skeptical of key provision of Voting Rights Act – live

Conservative justices appear sympathetic to the argument that new Louisiana congressional maps that added majority-Black district violate the constitution

Oral arguments have started in the case challenging the constitutionality of a redrawn congressional map in Louisiana.

Janai Nelson, the president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, kicked things off. She noted that if the map at the center of this case is deemed to be “unsatisfactory”, the proper recourse is to “remand and adopt” one of the many alternative maps that address the section 2 violation of the earlier map.

in Washington

A predominantly Black crowd has gathered outside the supreme court, as it continues to hear a case that threatens to gut the Voting Rights Act.