6/22/2009: Originalism and Is the 1965 Voting Rights Act still needed?

6/22/2009

Please respond to one or both of the link(s) below:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105748678
Court Sidesteps Major Ruling Over Civil Rights Act - What are your thoughts on the Supreme Court's action?


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105439966
Originalism! - What are your thoughts regarding Justice Scalia's 2008 comment:

"If you somehow adopt a philosophy that the Constitution itself is not static, but rather it morphs from age to age to say whatever it ought to say — which is probably whatever the people would want it to say — you eliminate the whole purpose of a Constitution. And that is essentially what the so-called living Constitution leaves you with."