February 28, 2013

Why Scalia’s ‘Racial Entitlement’ Quote Is Even Scarier Than You Think

Why Scalia’s ‘Racial Entitlement’ Quote Is Even Scarier Than You Think: Justice Antonin Scalia quite deservedly came under fire yesterday for his claim that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” If the justice were looking to confirm every suspicion that conservative opposition to the law that broke the back of Jim Crow voter exclusions is rooted in white [...]/p