USA TODAY: The Supreme Court justices sat largely still in late June as Chief Justice John Roberts announced his majority opinion against the Voting Rights Act of 1965. All, that is, except Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
From her perch two seats to Roberts’ left, the 80-year-old leader of the court’s liberal wing busily scribbled notes as she waited to deliver her fourth dissent from the bench in two days. That flurry of jurisprudential indignation gave her five oral dissents — a rarity on the court — for the 2012 term, more than any justice has read aloud in at least 44 years.
“What has become of the court’s usual restraint?” Ginsburg admonished her conservative colleagues, whose 5-4 ruling rendered impotent the voting rights law’s most powerful tool against racial discrimination… (more)
