The Supreme Court on Monday lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to reorganize congressional districts to increase black voting rights.

The order follows the court’s rejection earlier in June of a congressional redistribution map in Alabama and freezes the Louisiana case, which had been suspended pending the decision in Alabama.

In both states, black voters form a majority in only one congressional district. Lower courts had ruled that the cards raised concerns that Black voting rights had been diluted, in violation of the landmark federal Voting Rights Act.

About one-third of Louisiana’s residents are black. More than one in four Alabama residents is black.

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The judges put the Louisiana case on hold and allowed the state’s disputed map to be used in last year’s election after agreeing to hear the Alabama case.

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New Orleans Circuit Court of Appeals. The judges said the appeal can now move forward to next year’s congressional elections.

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