Outstanding, maddening, sickeningly-relevant even as so much has happened since publication to drive the situation further downhill. Berman does a great job of teasing out how inequality in voting affected each stage of the process, from pre-VRA literacy tests and poll taxes, to single-member districts that effectively eliminated any chance of black representation. He also illustrates the dicey political prospects of the original legislation and subsequent renewals, seemingly saved each time from GOP obstruction by current events or chance political winds. The good luck was bound to run out sooner or later, but the Roberts Court's decision was appalling nonetheless. I had to take breaks reading the last hundred pages or so just because the anger still feels so fresh, and these are genuinely horrible people who have insinuated themselves into DC polite society. Everything's bad and it's getting worse.