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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Voting Rights Act is still there.  Section 2 makes no mention of redistricting.  It was liberal judges that invented that interpretation to get extra seats for Democrats.  When originally done, it didn't matter as much for partisan purposes as Democrats held a lot of these seats.[/quote]

https://boltsmag.org/scotus-callais-voting-rights-act-ask-bolts/

And I think this is worse than blessing partisan gerrymandering: It incentivizes partisan gerrymandering in the worst possible way. The more racist you are as a party, the more insulated you are from Voting Rights Act liability under this decision. If you can make all of your partisan cues about race, then you will never be able to disentangle the two, and you will never face VRA liability. If there were a party called the Klan party, right now, it would trigger an awful lot of nonwhite opposition based on the party’s platform. But this opinion says, you have to set the party’s platform entirely aside to figure out if there’s been any damage based on race. So the more you can tie the two together, the more insulated you are. That means the most racist partisan gerrymandering is going to be the most immune from a VRA challenge. [/quote]

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