The following contribution to our VRA symposium comes from Nathaniel Persily, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia Law School. When the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, my first, quite parochial, reaction was:  “There goes the Voting Rights Act.”  Prior to that decision, the political scientist in … Continue reading Online VRA symposium: When should the best be the enemy of the possible?