Great Read "Ruling Puts Republicans on the Spot" re SCOTUS

Its from Bob Ray Sanders at the Fort Worth Star Telegram, about the recent SCOTUS ruling that sort of got lost in all the coverage of the bigger ruling. This is the one about the Texas redistricting. Sanders talks about how the SCOTUS tosses a monkey wrench into GOP plans to say that the Voting Rights Act is no longer needed by showing that the Voting Rights Act is still being violated in the south,

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/bob_ray_sanders/14938077.htm

<snip>One of the Republicans' main objections is the section of the bill requiring targeted states to get permission from the Justice Department or the courts before changing their voting procedures.

It is a new day, some of the Texans argued, and there is no need for that kind of oversight anymore.

"I don't think we have racial bias in Texas anymore," declared Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock.

Well, the one positive in the Supreme Court's ruling in the Texas redistricting case was that one of the gerrymandered districts -- the 23rd, which runs from San Antonio to El Paso -- must be redrawn because it did violate the Voting Rights Act by diluting minority voting strength.