Supreme Court to Weigh Race-Based Voting Lines After Election

The US Supreme Court will take up a new clash over the use of race in redistricting, agreeing to hear arguments on a Louisiana congressional map that creates an additional majority-Black voting district.

The justices said they will review a lower court ruling that declared the map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander – even though Louisiana was responding to a different court’s decision that the state probably needed a second majority-Black district to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

The clash will test the tension between two lines of Supreme Court precedents. The court has interpreted the Constitution’s equal protection clause ...