Nate Persily in WaPo, part of an Evenwel symposium:

In the end, the Evenwel appellants are asking the court to change the constitutional rules of the game just as Latinos are advancing down the field. Almost without exception, states have been drawing districts on the basis of total population rather than voter population since the “one person, one vote” rule was invented. Only now, when the political winners may change, do they claim that the Constitution means something so different that states should not even be permitted to follow time-honored practice.

The court should reject the Evenwel argument because it is unprecedented and destabilizing to the redistricting process. But it should also send a message that this attempt to use the judicial process to change the rules of political competition for an emerging minority will be rejected out of hand.