South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Dick Harpootlian says rationale behind 2006 amendments, and perhaps 1982 amendments, to the Voting Rights Act are gone.  He wants changes.  He “will fight to loosen the Voting Rights Act’s restrictions on the role of race in drawing district lines in a bid to remake southern politics.”  The Democratic Party chair seems ready to litigate against the standards, “up to a Supreme Court.”  Politico.