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Supreme Court Seems Inclined to Restrict Race-Based Districting

A federal district court had ordered a second black-majority congressional district be created in Louisiana after finding black voters were underrepresented.
Supreme Court Seems Inclined to Restrict Race-Based Districting
The Supreme Court in Washington on Oct. 6, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
10/15/2025|Updated: 10/15/2025
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 15 seemed likely to limit the use of race-based districting during an oral argument concerning Louisiana’s congressional map.

At the same time, some justices on the nation’s highest court pushed back against the idea that discarding the use of race in drawing electoral districts was necessary or constitutional.

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