re: #4 EPR-radar

Can we at least agree that the Supreme Court killed section 4 as a way to effectively kill section 5 without being obvious about it?

As I understand it, there was a process by which a covered jurisdiction named on the original list of infamy can get off the list that involves establishing a record of not screwing with minority votes.

Unless this impression is completely incorrect, I have no sympathy for any jurisdiction that couldn’t be bothered to get off the list by acting decently for a span of time.

It wasn’t just ‘decently’, and counties in states covered entirely by the Sec. 4 formula were kind of hosed.

As for Section 5, that’s not what the majority did. They said a new formula is needed. If Congress drops the ball on passing on, then that is not the Supreme Court’s fault.