Despite Justice John Roberts’s insistence in the Shelby Voting Rights Act decision that historical perspectives about racism are no longer relevant, the 2012-13 Supreme Court term seems to have been guided by a limited, Jim Crow-era definition of discrimination – concerned only with the formality of legal segregation. This would explain the contrasting support for and evisceration of civil rights across the cases decided this term.
A Watered-Down Vision of Equality - Room for Debate
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