One Judge Has the Guts to Put the Horror of This Supreme Court Term in Context

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7. "The Supreme Court only sees white." It's a scorching opinion unrelated to the case before the court, but it is spot on

"The Roberts Court sees only white," Eddins charged, opening with an attack on the chief justice.

"That is not blindness," the opinion said, arguing that the court's racial preferences were at the heart of its decisions. "That is white sight, by design."

Eddins pointed to the Court's April decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted a core protection of the Voting Rights Act. That ruling, he wrote, buried "the crown jewel of the civil rights movement," and he accused the justices of "looking at naked racism and seeing none of it."

That record, Eddins argued, exposed the court's colorblind pose as a fiction. "A Constitution interpreted this way is not colorblind," he wrote. "It is whatever the Court needs it to be."