It would appear as if SCOTUS is poised to remove any sort of special treatment based on race from the books. Chief Justice Roberts has certainly made his position clear in the past, that the time has come. The interesting thing here is that, I would imagine, the world would be a better place if it were color-blind. And maybe we're moving toward a color-blind US. But are we there yet? Has the time come?
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., writing for the majority, acknowledged that the court’s approach stretched the statutory text, but he said the court should avoid deciding hard constitutional questions when it could. “We are now a very different nation” than the one that first passed the Voting Rights Act, he said. “Whether conditions continue to justify such legislation is a difficult constitutional question we do not answer today.”More...
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