@SteveThompson Slate is getting this backwards.

Thomas was ADDRESSING the mess, and this was part of cleaning it up.

For courts to act on a private right of action that didn't exist under law, that our democratic process didn't grant, is a misapplication of the VRA that needed to be fixed.

it was a mess.

So this is cleaning that up, AND reinforcing the authority of our democratic process to change the law if it needs change.

What Slate presents, in rather breathless fashion, as the problem is actually a solution.