Ihave written about the dangers of the Court killing off or significantly weakening Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, via the surprise reargument in the Louisiana v. Callais case. If the Court rules Section 2 unconstitutional because it requires race-conscious redistricting, or seriously weakens it so that it has no power to force the drawing of districts in which minority voters have an opportunity to elect their candidates of choice, that will affect congressional, state, and local districts around the country where lines are drawn in compliance with Section 2.

But it also might affect the constitutionality of state Voting Rights Acts. Nine state s have these acts, and they are all Democratic leaning states. They differ in their particulars but many are looser than Section 2 in t

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