After an impassioned set of arguments Wednesday over the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the question is whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh is willing to completely dismantle a law intended to ensure equal voting power for Blacks and other racial minorities.

In a dispute over a Louisiana voting map, the conservative majority signaled it might prohibit using race as a factor in creating election districts. Resulting redistricting could let states cement Republican control of Congress.

These are the 19 Congressional Districts Demcrates could lose depeing on the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that the Voting Rights Act must sunset after an undetermined amount of time. Justice Amy Coney Barrett proposed imposing a limit on Congress’s power to remedy discrimination — one that the Court has applied in nonvoting cases — on election-related laws like the VRA.

While the 1965 law was adopted in response to discriminatory practices in southern states, it has affected states and localities nationwide.

A Voting Rights Act provision is at risk and a homecoming at a gay rodeo: Morning Rundown The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could gut a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. Concern over lethal strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats grows in Congress. And celebrating a half-century of gay rodeo.

Yesterday: The Republican leaders of North Carolina's legislature announced they will redraw congressional maps in an attempt to create a new Republican district. Background: Trump kicked off a wave of unusual mid-decade redistricting when he asked Texas to create a new congressional map with five more Republican House seats.

The Supreme Court appeared poised today to weaken a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by limiting the ability of lawmakers to use race as a factor in drawing voting maps.