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Breaking News ARGUMENT ANALYSIS Court weighs Louisiana redistricting with second majorityBlack district ByAmy Howe on March 24 at 215 p. m. No clear consensus emerged on Monday as the justices heard oral arguments in a dispute over an electoral map enacted by Louisianas legislature in 2024 that created two majorityBlack districts of the states six. A federal court threw the map out at the request of a group that describes themselves as nonAfrican American voters calling it an illegal racial gerrymander.