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First, the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority may be swayed by the fact that most past cases on travel involve discrimination against out-of-state residents.

Litigation on the issue has raged on for decades, but the Supreme Court didn’t take up the question of the meaning of the choice-of-provider statute until the new conservative supermajority took shape.

Despite hours of passionate testimony, the outcome was never really in question in a California Legislature where Democrats hold a supermajority and Republicans possess little power.

And, even more troublingly, the conservative supermajority’s questions made clear that Louisiana’s remedial map may not be the only thing in danger: The Voting Rights Act itself may also be on the line.

Not only would Trump need congressional approval to get rid of the department, but he would also probably need a supermajority in the US Senate - 60 out of 100 senators.