Ellen Katz has posted a new draft paper, Not Like the South? Regional Variation and Political Participation Through the Lens of Section 2. I quickly read this draft and think it will be important in the legal debate over the constitutionality of a renewed section 5. It presses the point that I’ve been disagreeing with: that because section 5 has been such a good deterrent, the Supreme Court shouldn’t require Congress to meet the same evidientiary burden it would need to meet with a new statute.