See here at AEI. A snippet: “So, armed with the Ashcroft fix, how much damage could a Democratic controlled Justice Department do to Republican hopes after the next census? Quite a bit it turns out. Today there are 102 congressional districts in the states wholly covered by Section 5: Republicans hold 61 of these seats, while Democrats hold 41. After the 2010 Census, those same states may be apportioned another seven or eight districts because of population growth. If applied by an aggressively partisan attorney general, the Ashcroft fix could shift nearly 10 of these seats to the Democrats. Since the country is so evenly split between the two parties, that may be enough to keep the GOP out of the majority for a decade (especially since it is losing support in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, and Western states).” Nate Persily, what do you think?