The 2012 congressional redistricting cycle following the 2010 Census is just about over and done with. And it seems likely to make much less difference than many of us expected.

A now-irrelevant provision of the Voting Rights Act may soon be no more.

Forty-five years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department has adopted a definition of discriminatory intent that strengthens the federal hand in micromanaging districting in states and counties throughout the United States and increases the odds that the Supreme Court will soon cast a skeptical eye on Section 5.

The attorney general's interpretation of the Voting Rights Act and proposed guidelines to ensure that certain states obtain federal approval for all proposed changes in voting procedure including "redrawing districting maps" will negatively affect the landscape of American politics for decades to come.

American voters have turned a racial corner, and the law should reflect this change.

Barack Obama's election seemed to signal a fading away of identity politics, but he himself has made identity politics news again with his nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.

In 2011, does black political inclusion really still depend on protecting black candidates from white competition in race-based districts?

Most Americans are appalled not only by the notion of unequal enforcement of voter-intimidation cases, but by the whole politically correct edifice of affirmative action and racial preferences that has been constructed over the years.