I’ve written this new Opinion column for Politico. It begins:

With news coverage focused on Federal District Judge Roger Vinson’s decision Monday to declare the health care reform law unconstitutional, it might be easy to miss this week’s news from another federal courthouse: opponents of the Voting Rights Act have renewed their efforts to have that law declared unconstitutional, too.
As different as these cases look, the Voting Rights Act litigation may well save the health care law–or most of it — from being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.