Supreme Court Doesn’t Care About Voting Anymore: Noah Feldman

The Supreme Court’s decision this week to allow Alabama to use a congressional map that the lower courts had twice overturned as racially discriminatory marks an important stage in the evolution of the court as an institution — and of the US as a democracy. The ruling sends all Americans, as voters and citizens, a clear message: When it comes to ensuring fair elections, we’re on our own.

For more than 60 years, since its landmark one-person-one vote ruling in 1964 and the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the court has played a central role in policing ...