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By Linda Greenhouse, Opinionator @ nytimes.com, March 6, 2013
Years from now, when the Supreme Court has come to its senses, justices then sitting will look back on the spring of 2013 in bewilderment. On what basis, they will wonder, did five conservative justices, professed believers in judicial restraint, reach out to grab the authority that the framers of the post-Civil War 14th and 15th Amendments had vested in Congress nearly a century and a half earlier “to enforce, by appropriate legislation” the right to equal protection and the right to vote. How on earth did it come to pass that the Supreme Court ruled a major provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional?
You will have noticed that I’m making a premature assumption here about the outcome of a case, Shelby County v. Holder, that was argued just last week. Although I’m willing to bet that Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has already drafted his 5-to-4 majority opinion, I’d be nothing but relieved if the court proves me wrong [.....]
Comments
Ms. Greenhouse makes two assumptions. Both assumptions are about very important outcomes. If I were a betting man I would give odds she is right on the second but on quite shaky grounds on the first. Wait, I am a betting man. I'll give two to one that five of Supremos vote as she predicts. I just wish I had as much confidence that the assumption in her very first sentence was also likely to turn out to be a correct prediction, but I'm not willing to bet on it, at least not for many years.
Fine article, IMHO.
by LULU (not verified) on Fri, 03/08/2013 - 7:50am
Greenhouse miscontrues "originalism"...it refers to the original consitution (absent the amendments). Clearly, at least for Nino, the amendments are a secondary inconvenience, except for the 2nd...
by jollyroger on Sat, 03/09/2013 - 4:32am