Supreme Court Backs Majority-Black Congressional District (1)

The US Supreme Court reinstated a Louisiana congressional map that adds a second majority-Black district for the November election, giving Democrats a likely pickup in the battle to control the House.

The justices put on hold a lower court order that declared the map an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The new map could mean the ouster of Republican Representative Garret Graves, whose Baton Rouge-area district was carved up to create the new lines. Graves has said he will run in the new district.

The complexities of the case flipped the court’s normal ideological divide. The three liberal justices — Sonia ...