"Usually, when a law is effective and previous courts have upheld it, those features are considered virtues. They are reasons to retain a statute. For conservative jurists, however, race is just different. As the historian Jelani Cobb has observed, civil rights laws are one of the only areas where judges seem to count a policy’s success as evidence against its continued use. So take a look at this conclusion from Roberts’ opinion: “There is no doubt” that improvements in racial equality “are in large part because of the Voting Rights Act.” He says that to indict the law’s continued existence—not to praise its utility."
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 23:53:25 +0000
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