WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a voting-rights case with several unusual twists, including disagreements among Virginia officials about who was entitled to represent the state. The case, a race-discrimination challenge to parts of the voting map for Virginia’s House of Delegates, was making its second appearance at the court. In 2017, the justices instructed a three-judge Federal District Court to take a fresh look at whether racial consideration had played too large a role in drawing the legislative map for the state’s House of Delegates. The case concerns 11 voting districts drawn after the 2010 census, each with at least a 55 percent population of black residents of voting age. The Supreme Court has called for very close scrutiny of a state’s action when race was shown to be the predominant reason in creating legislative districts.

Source: New York Times March 18, 2019 18:22 UTC