Arguments in the case centered on Louisiana's response to U.S. District Judge Shelly Dick's 2022 finding that an earlier map likely violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark law barring racial discrimination in voting, and whether the state relied too heavily on race in devising a remedial map adding a second Black-majority district.

The U.S. Supreme Court decided to delay its ruling on Louisiana’s congressional map and will rehear the case later.

The justices asked that the case, which has implications for the political power of Black voters, be reargued next term.