We Totally Solved Civil Rights

This “plain English” account of today’s 5–4 Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder — the big Voting Rights Act case this term — pretty much tells me that I am not smart enough to be allowed to vote, because I can’t even understand a simple summary. I guess we beat the boss level of racism? So let’s be happy about that, if that’s what we decided. But as I said, I can’t really tell.