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The furor over the Voting Rights is exactly what is wrong in this country when it comes to politics. Misinformation, overreaction, and exploitation. The SCOTUS did not invalidate the law...it simply said you can't come up with a law (or part of a law) to treat states disproportionately in-perpetuity. That seems like a pretty non-controversial finding. Now I certainly could buy the argument that it is a passed law by our Congress that has been extended and that SCOTUS shouldn't be interfering especially when Scalia rails against such interference. But it didn't "gut" the law. If it is worth having then Congress should do its job and reenact provisions to modernize the calculations. The fact that our Congress is entirely dysfunctional isn't a reason to keep a part of a law that may or may not be appropriate. What they basically said was "The law shouldn't have been allowed in this form without provisions for periodic recalculation".