If Supreme Court justices don’t want to be seen as “partisan hacks,” they should not act like them. In July, the court, now with six Republican appointees, gutted another crucial provision of the Voting Rights Act. In these and other cases, the Republican justices changed the law to dramatically favor Republicans in the political process. No one — least of all a Supreme Court justice — should pretend otherwise. He is the author most recently of “Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.”

Source: Los Angeles Times September 19, 2021 11:03 UTC