When the U.S. Supreme Court drilled down Wednesday on the issues surrounding Louisiana's Voting Rights case, the six conservative justices asked questions and made comments that indicated they thought Louisiana relied too much on race in drawing a second majority-Black congressional district.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh argued that the Voting Rights Act must sunset after an undetermined amount of time. Justice Amy Coney Barrett proposed imposing a limit on Congress’s power to remedy discrimination — one that the Court has applied in nonvoting cases — on election-related laws like the VRA.