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By a vote of 131-84, a supermajority of House Democrats chose to hand one of the most visible positions in Congress to someone who announced their retirement from public life four months later.

First, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority may be swayed by the fact that most past cases on travel involve discrimination against out-of-state residents.

Litigation on the issue has raged on for decades, but the Supreme Court didn’t take up the question of the meaning of the choice-of-provider statute until the new conservative supermajority took shape.

Despite hours of passionate testimony, the outcome was never really in question in a California Legislature where Democrats hold a supermajority and Republicans possess little power.

And, even more troublingly, the conservative supermajority’s questions made clear that Louisiana’s remedial map may not be the only thing in danger: The Voting Rights Act itself may also be on the line.