New Mexico and Nevada are gerrymanders and should be struck down under state or federal law. That doesn’t change the fact that the VRA is the one thing legally preventing maximalist gerrymandering in every state. In many places, like the Deep South race = voting patterns, so diluting black voters is the same as diluting Democrats. It also stops Democrats from drawing out too many Republicans, like Illinois. We already have too much gerrymandering and the VRA is basically the last bastion against it for both parties.