Hartmann: An answer to Repugnacon voter suppression

He paraphrases section 2 of the 14th Amendment as stating that 

"If a state won’t let, say, a third of their citizens vote in elections, they lose a third of their seats in the House of Representatives. With appropriate enabling legislation, this could provide a basis for requiring states that past restrictive voting laws that disenfranchise measurable portions of their electorate to forfeit some of their members of Congress."

Section 5 of the 14th Amendment gives Congress the power to enact such legislation. If progressives fail to pass Plan A, get HR1/S1 passed, this is a good Plan B. But Plan B would also require the sort of will and commitment to play political hardball needed to pass Plan A. If they don't have the guts for the first I can't see that they will for the second.