J. KAGAN, dissenting: "So the Court decides this Voting Rights Act case at a perilous moment for the Nation’s commitment to equal citizenship. It decides this case in an era of voting-rights retrenchment—when too many States and localities are restricting..." 1/4
"access to voting in ways that will predictably deprive members of minority groups of equal access to the ballot box. If 'any racial discrimination in voting is too much,' as the Shelby County Court recited, then the Act still has much to do." 2/4
"Or more precisely, the fraction of the Act remaining—the Act as diminished by the Court’s hand. Congress never meant for Section 2 to bear all of the weight of the Act’s commitments..." 3/4
"Section 2 was supposed to be a back-up, for all its sweep and power. But after Shelby County, the vitality of Section 2—a 'permanent, nationwide ban on racial discrimination in voting'—matters more than ever. For after Shelby County, Section 2 is what voters have left." 4/4
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