Response to Commonweal Post On Supreme Court and the Votings Right Act

Commonweal has a post up on the Supreme Court opinion that now invalidates Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act and matters dealing with Pre Clearance. See Scalia: Chief Judicial Activist? The case tht Scalia is a Judicial Activist is never really made unless one buys that the argument that anytime a law is overturned a person is being a judicial activist.

Opinions can and will differ as to what the Supreme Court did today. I have been of the opinon that the evils are starting the outweight the good as to maintaining the status quo.

Among other things its does seems seem packing every minority one can in district has resulted in both parties electing people that are slighlty more partisan and tilt to the hard left or right. Its also functions as impediment to building local coalitions in elections. It is also very expensive and for every political sub division to have comply with.

Rod Dreher has some very local experience with Sec 5 in his Parish where the citizens are trying to change a form of Government that does not seem to be working.  That is the gritty reality of some places in the United States.