After an impassioned set of arguments Wednesday over the 1965 Voting Rights Act, the question is whether Justice Brett Kavanaugh is willing to completely dismantle a law intended to ensure equal voting power for Blacks and other racial minorities.

While the 1965 law was adopted in response to discriminatory practices in southern states, it has affected states and localities nationwide.

These are the 19 Congressional Districts Demcrates could lose depeing on the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais.

A Voting Rights Act provision is at risk and a homecoming at a gay rodeo: Morning Rundown The Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could gut a key provision in the Voting Rights Act. Concern over lethal strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats grows in Congress. And celebrating a half-century of gay rodeo.

The Supreme Court appeared poised today to weaken a key provision of a landmark civil rights law by limiting the ability of lawmakers to use race as a factor in drawing voting maps.

Yesterday: The Republican leaders of North Carolina's legislature announced they will redraw congressional maps in an attempt to create a new Republican district. Background: Trump kicked off a wave of unusual mid-decade redistricting when he asked Texas to create a new congressional map with five more Republican House seats.