Musing About Rights on the Fourth of July

It’s Independence Day in the United States — more generally referred to here as the Fourth of July — and the U.S. Supreme Court just ended its latest term by tossing out the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and at the same time gutting the Voting Rights Act that has protected racial and ethnic minorities from voting discrimination since the 1970s.

New York Times columnist Charles Blow had an excellent piece on the end-of-term court decisions and how the court can jettison some of the barriers...