If, as Roberts wrote, “There is no doubt that these improvements are in large part because of the Voting Rights Act…The Act has proved immensely successful at redressing racial discrimination and integrating the voting process” then why did he choose to strike it down? Justice Scalia provided great insight into their mind set when he stated in oral arguments, “I think it (reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act) is attributable, very likely attributable, to a phenomenon that is called perpetuation of racial entitlement…” And as his predecessor Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857), a Black man has no rights that a White man is bound to respect “…slaves like land and tools, were nothing more nor less than private property belonging to their owners, not human in the legal sense.”
Posted on: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:15:23 +0000
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