The Supreme Court upholds voting maps that had been ruled discriminatory

IT HAS not been a good month for voting rights at the Supreme Court. On June 11th, the justices gave the green-light to states experimenting with new ways of removing voters from the rolls. A week later, the court told America that procedural tangles prevented it from doing anything to curb partisan gerrymandering—at least for now. On June 25th the five conservative justices formed a bare majority to mostly absolve Texas of findings it had discriminated against Latinos when lawmakers redrew congressional and state-legislative maps following the 2010 census.

Abbott v Perez was written by Justice Samuel Alito, author of Husted v Philip Randolph Institute, the voter-purge ruling earlier in the month. In both cases, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a strident dissenting...Continue reading

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