Along with the court’s decision, the country’s long-term political and demographic trends forecast continued worsening of the problem of entrenched minority rule. “Equal justice under law requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process,” Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the majority. On Tuesday, the Trump administration said that it would print the census without the question. In other courtrooms, justice continues to be meted out, in fits and starts. It may seem odd that a country so prosperous, so powerful and so free would at the same time be so anxious and angry, so riven by factionalism.

Source: International New York Times July 04, 2019 00:33 UTC