You would not know it given the dearth of news coverage, but a very important oral argument on the constitutionality of the renewed section 5 of the Voting Rights Act (an issue discussed and debated in detail here) will be held Monday at 8 am (note time change) before a 3 judge federal court in Washington DC.
In advance of the argument, the parties have filed memoranda (here and here) responding to Nate Persily’s forthcoming Yale piece on VRA renewal.
There will also be this post argument forum at AEI on the oral argument.
My law review article written before renewal setting out the constitutional issues is here. An updated version of that article appears as a chapter in The Future of the Voting Rights Act.