As we move into the post-VRA era, I’m wondering just what new laws the ‘redeemed’ jurisdictions are now going to come up with to deal with minority voters? I figure this might be a good job for a crowd-sourcing effort. What laws are we likely to see? One day voting between 9 am and 1 pm? Minority voter districts must be under sea level? Ideas?

I hinted at this in my post from earlier today: the VRA decision is the perfect complement to the GOP’s increasingly clear strategy of ignoring the 2012 election and doubling down on maximizing the white vote. But Josh Green really captures it when he calls the decision a ‘poison chalice‘ for the GOP, encouraging and giving more tools to the GOP in its quest to max out white voting and make the Democratic party the home of the overwhelming number of non-white voters and the white voters who feel at home in a truly multiracial party.

To paraphrase Bill Clinton’s famous words from 1996, the Court has built the GOP a mobility scooter to ride into the 22nd century.