This has been played off all day as DeLay getting a slapdown. Only districts with a total of around 100,000 inhabitants total, were rejected. That leaves a whole lot of districts with millions of inhabitants collectively, that were just fine.
Oh, poor Martin Frost, you really lost.
No doubt the Democrats will appeal.
If you understood this fiasco of a decision, more power to you. 100+ pages of interlocking concurring and dissenting opinions, none of which make it any easier for the state legislatures or district courts to review Voting Rights Act claims.
The Roberts Court, it seems, is continuing the Rehnquist Court's inability to pen a decision that will make Americans less likely to foot the bill for lawyers. Instead, it continues the O'Connorish enumeration of factors and tests, which inevitably result in eternal suits and infernal unsettlement, with the legislators damned if they do or don't. Justice Kennedy, as usual, is there to solomonically split the difference, no matter how nonsensical doing so is.
Small wonder nobody respects lawyers, with this kind of gobbledygook emanating from the nominally Supreme Court. 99% of our state court judges could produce better than this bull.