Rick H. has recently lamented that more media attention is being paid to the current fight over mid-decade redistricting than over the Supreme Court’s potential ruling in the Louisiana Voting Rights Act case. Both are huge developments in the field of election law, and I’d hate to have to prioritize. Instead, I will just observe quickly that the system of “self-districting” that I proposed a few years ago would solve both problems. First, it would make partisan gerrymandering by government officials obsolete, thereby eliminating the concern over what is happening in Texas right now. Second, it would empower minority voters to form districts of their own choosing, thereby avoiding the necessity of a VRA remedy for minority vote dilution. Moreover, an adverse decision in the Louisiana case would not be an obstacle to the adoption of a self-districting system, as it would not raise any concerns about the government drawing district lines on the basis of race. Instead, the districting decisions would be the free choices of individual citizens on the basis of whatever values they choose.