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High court’s Voting Rights Act ruling may have positive consequences for Arizona

Starting with a set number of lopsided majority-minority districts thwarts competitive races in the remainder of the state

OPINION — For decades, the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on redistricting has been a muddle.

According to the court during this stretch, if a state didn’t consider race enough, that violated the Voting Rights Act. If a state considered race too much, that violated the 14th Amendment.

The court never established coherent rules for the Goldilocks consideration of race, neither too little nor too much. It propounded a multipronged set of ambiguous considerations and applied them inconsistently.

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