The Justice Department implored the Supreme Court to strike down race-based redistricting as the justices are slated to hear oral arguments in the coming weeks on whether Louisiana’s creation of a second black-majority district was unconstitutional.

The DOJ, in a brief to the high court, argued that Louisiana’s creation of the second black-majority district, created to comply with a different court order, was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The department also called on the high court to strike down its 1986 ruling in Thornburg v. Gingles, which set the current parameters for legal challenges of congressional maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

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