Supreme Court questions Section 2 Voting Rights Act redistricting rules

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a consolidated redistricting case in which multiple justices questioned whether Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act requires race-conscious district drawing. Conservative justices signaled skepticism toward existing Section 2 case law, raising the prospect of gutting the statute's redistricting protections. Civil rights attorneys warned that a ruling narrowing Section 2 could eliminate majority-minority districts in more than a dozen states.