Sparks: US: Supreme Court weakens voting rigths act

The law's new shape will be forgotten like the edicts of every other anxious ruler who mistook his own moment for eternity.

The equality of conditions is sustained not by the court's parchment but by the daily habit of sharing power, a custom this ruling quietly abandons.

A form is filed to establish the right to file the form that would have permitted the original form to be considered.

Power, once checked by a single statute, now accumulates in the hands of those who interpret its weakening.

Why do millions consent to the disenfranchisement of thousands when the arithmetic of the ballot box so plainly favors the many?

To deny a people the full machinery of their political voice and then cite their resulting powerlessness as natural is the oldest trick of tyranny.

A slight variation in the redistricting of a single fly's wing would be noted in my folio, yet this profound mutation of the body politic is called law.

If the center of political gravity can shift from the people, then all other celestial bodies in our firmament of power are also set adrift.

This algorithm for representation, designed to compute a just result, now produces a different output based on an unexamined variable.

One must stand in the long line at the precinct to understand the precise weight of a right that has been lightened.

'The court finds the remedy too racial in character,' a sentence whose grammar performs the very excision it describes.

It is a most ingenious system, to first draw the district and then declare the principle of its drawing illegal.

Count the districts, then count the representatives, and the arithmetic will reveal the political subtraction this decision performs.

Hateful things: the clean, precise line of ink on a map that renders a living community invisible.