Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the consolidated cases of Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais. These cases were brought for one purpose only: to give the Court's carefully constructed conservative majority a chance to kick out the last support beams holding up the Voting Rights Act of 1965. From The Guardian:

The court’s decision in the case, Louisiana v. Callais , could be one of the most consequential rulings for the Voting Rights Act since it was enacted in 1965 and is almost certainly the biggest test for the law since its decision in Shelby county v. Holder in 2013, when the justices hollowed out a provision of the law, section five, that required certain places to get voting changes approved by the federal government before they go into effect.

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