Supreme Court schedules October rearguments for Louisiana redistricting case

The high court will hear a second round of oral arguments on Oct. 15 in the case about the constitutionality of creating a second black-majority congressional district in Louisiana.

The justices heard a first round of oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais in March but punted on a decision in June and ordered new briefs on whether the state’s “intentional creation of a second majority-minority congressional district violates the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments.” The outcome of the case could further narrow the Voting Rights Act and eliminate mandatory minority-majority districts.

The Supreme Court scheduled Villarreal v. Texas as the first oral arguments of the term for Oct. 6. Justices will weigh whether a trial court curtailed a defendant’s Sixth Amendment right by prohibiting him from

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