“President Trump’s effort to create five additional Republican House seats in Texas, for instance, is possible in part thanks to a 2019 Supreme Court decision that said federal courts have no role to play in assessing the constitutionality of voting maps distorted by politics. Holding Section 2 unconstitutional could be a boon for Republicans, said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a law professor at Harvard, as it would allow states to eliminate minority-opportunity districts altogether. That would make it easy, he said, to draw completely Republican maps in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and elsewhere.”

In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails