Louisiana v. Callais · ¶187

So the majority moves on again, now to a grab-bag of “developments” that it somehow thinks license it to rewrite a statute. Ante, at 116–118. The majority first summons the slogan of Shelby County, in which the Court ordained itself the arbiter of when civil rights laws are no longer needed. “ `[T]hings have changed dramatically,' ” today's majority echoes, pointing to increases in African American voting registration and to the success of “ `African-Americans attain[ing] political office' ”—“particularly in the South, where many § 2 suits arise.” Ante, at 116 (quoting Shelby County, 570 U. S., at 547, 553). No doubt that is so, in large measure because of the Voting Rights Act. But it is a separate question whether those gains will endure once the Act's protections are gone. See Shelby County, 570 U. S., at 590 (Ginsburg, J., dissenting) (noting the fallacy of “throwing away your…

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