"The Roberts court stands on the brink of making an error of historic proportions."

[blueclown]

38. Roberts wants to eviscerate Section 5.

There is very little chance that he will be voting in favor of keeping the pre-clearance and formula provisions of the Voting Rights Act (Section 4). Look back to his years in the Reagan administration. However, I still hold out hope that Justice Kennedy will not vote to strike down Section 5. He did seem very perturbed about the formula during oral arguments, referring to it multiple times as "reverse engineering". However, when he asked the petitioner's lawyer, Bert Rein, about "if they are covered under any formula that could be devised, why are they injured under this one?", Mr Rein didn't seem to have a good answer to his question.

But you never know. This case will hinge on Kennedy's decision. And I don't think we know definitively what he will do.