“Five unelected, life-tenured men this morning [June 25, 2013] declared that overt racial discrimination in the nation’s voting practices is over and no longer needs all of the special federal protections it once did. They did so, without a trace of irony, by striking down as unconstitutionally outdated a key provision of a federal law that this past election cycle alone protected the franchise for tens of millions of minority citizens. And they did so on behalf of an unrepentant county in the Deep South whose officials complained about the curse of federal oversight even as they continued to this very day to enact and implement racially discriminatory voting laws.”

–Andrew Cohen in The Atlantic, linked below.

The Atlantic

from Wikipedia:  “Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a dissenting opinion that was joined by Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. She noted that ‘Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.’^[8]”

NY Times