“The Courts Begin to Call Out Lawmakers”

Must-read Linda Greenhouse in NYT on courts reining in Republican legislature’s overreach:

But something has happened this summer that matters. Legislators, perhaps assuming they had friends in high judicial places, had taken bold, even flagrant steps to suppress the black vote and restrict women’s access to abortion. Judges responded, and even though their actions in some cases spoke more loudly than their words, these decisions mark a departure and make a difference. Maybe they will even begin to erase the memory of the long ago summer when the swimming pools closed to black and white alike.

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