VRA Orals: Badly Tailored or Not, Rhetoric Was Worse

Scalia attributed the repeated renewal of Section 5 to a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” He said, “Whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it is very difficult to get out of them through the normal political processes.”

Grandpa Scalia is back in "fine" form, striking the perhaps uninitiated as really unhinged. It does, I guess, address the rejoinder that representatives of these states by their votes (or amici, including NYC) adequately (even if done by messy politics) replied to Kennedy's concern about "trusteeship" like Alabama is akin to Micronesia or something at the moment.