Here’s my prediction on a “fix” post-Shelby.

Yesterday demonstrated that the defenders of the unconstitutional law aren’t familiar with bipartisan compromise.  “Bipartisanship” to them means Republicans giving Democrats whatever they want.  Worse, their handmaidens in the left-wing press like Andrew Cohen and the peculiarly dishonest Ari Berman saw fit to personally attack people (Me, Chairman Franks, Steve King, Hans von Spakovsky) rather than debate our ideas.  Slate misquoted my testimony, flagrantly.  This demonstrates an ill will that might have worked when Democrats held the majority.

The most telling moment of the entire hearing is when Rep, Jim Sensenbrenner left the room.  The Democrat’s beachhead into the GOP withdrew. Sure, there was as “scheduling conflict” but priorities are priorities.

Unless Democrats and their shills like Berman tone down the rhetoric and accusations – absolutely nothing will move through Congress post-Shelby. 

If Nadler and others approach the matter in good faith, and are willing to make concessions, perhaps on the Section 5 standards relating to the insertion of the word “any” into 5, then a revision of Section 3 is possible to include discriminatory results, and maybe more.

Given the fact that handmaidens like Berman and Cohen are hard wired to attack, and given the fact that groups have vowed to get “loud” (cf reasonable and approachable) I suspect nothing will happen. Moving a Shelby fix through Congress will depend on whether or not the scorpions can stop being scorpions, and I know how that story ends.