[Jim Noble]

Sad when a judge thinks that “Federal law requires” discrimination

But that's exactly what the law requires.

[BenLurkin]

I guess what I’m suggesting is that any judge should be able to find that the law is unconstitutional on its face.

[Verginius Rufus]

Did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 actually dictate that districts must be drawn to maximize the likelihood of black candidates winning? I haven’t looked at the text of the law but there weren’t a lot of black Congressional candidates back then...did Congress really think in those terms or did judges just find that right later?