More on Voting Rights

From Linda Greenhouse's op-ed piece today.  The whole thing is worth reading,

Years from now, when the Supreme Court has come to its senses, justices then sitting will look back on the spring of 2013 in bewilderment. On what basis, they will wonder, did five conservative justices, professed believers in judicial restraint, reach out to grab the authority that the framers of the post-Civil War 14th and 15th Amendments had vested in Congress nearly a century and a half earlier “to enforce, by appropriate legislation” the right to equal protection and the right to vote. How on earth did it come to pass that the Supreme Court ruled a major provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional?

As she says, there is a possibility she's wrong, but that she would bet John Roberts already has his 5-4 majority opinion written to gut the Voting Rights Act.

It so, it should be the final nail in the coffin that lays to rest the right wing complaints about "judicial activism."