Kavanaugh Suggests Time Limit in Voting Rights Case: The Brief

THE SUGGESTION raised by US Justice Brett Kavanaugh that there needs to be an “end point” to using race in drawing voting maps would extend the Supreme Court’s previous logic in ending affirmative action in college admissions — a big step for the conservative-dominated court, Justin Wise reports.

• During Wednesday’s arguments in a case over whether Louisiana must take race into account when creating its congressional map, Kavanaugh repeatedly raised the notion of time limits, at one point noting that the court has permitted “race-based remedies” in various contexts but “they should not be indefinite and should have a end ...