During the past year, practitioners, academics and former state chief justices have weighed in on a range of legal issues in these pages. The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the Affordable Care Act figured prominently, as did other hot-button issues now before the court, such as same-sex marriage, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act. Other topics tackled included the election and the state of the profession. Here are some highlights.
SUPREME COURT VOTING RIGHTS ACT
ILYA SHAPIROSenior fellow in constitutional studies, The Cato Institute (February 27)
The U.S. Supreme Court was surely correct last month when it unanimously overturned the Texas electoral maps a San Antonio federal district court drew because that court did not use the “appropriate standards” in drawing them.…Fair enough, but this reasonable-sounding decision belies larger issues: The Voting Rights Act has served its purpose but is now outmoded and unworkable and is thus itself now unconstitutional.…
