Does Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which specifically forbids the creation of racially proportional congressional districts, require states to create congressional districts in equal proportion to the state’s minority population? 

If that question seems ridiculous because the answer is obviously “no,” it doesn’t mean that the Left is not willing to raise it. It is exactly what lawyers sympathetic to the Democratic Party argued in front of the Supreme Court on Oct. 15. Fortunately, the six originalist and textualist members of the court seemed unimpressed.