Thursday, March 7, 2013
Why Chief Justice Roberts’ Voting Rights Act Math Doesn’t Add Up
Why Chief Justice Roberts’ Voting Rights Act Math Doesn’t Add Up: The US Supreme Court seems poised to invalidate a key section of the Voting Rights Act after last week’s hostile oral argument. Conservative justices insisted that special protections for minority voters in historically discriminatory districts are now obsolete. While Justice Antonin Scalia brashly attacked the law as “a perpetuation of racial entitlement,” Chief Justice John [...]/p