Linda Greenhouse in the NYT:

But I have a sense now that those dots are getting connected. Not only was Selma’s 50th anniversary — the real one, not my imaginary one of two years ago — a stirring national event, but in Ferguson itself, residents areturning to the ballot box as the path to reform. I hope it’s not a fantasy to imagine that the Supreme Court — yes, the Roberts court — will seize the opportunity that the Wisconsin case provides to send a message different from the one it sent two years ago, an affirmative message the country now urgently needs to hear.