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Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: 2022-23 Supreme Court Review

We the People

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The Problem With Justice Thomas's Perspective on Voting Rights

"I have as much trepidation about talking about voting rights in front of Pam Carlin as I would about pop music in front of Taylor Swift," he said. "The fundamental problem with Justice Thomas's perspective is that it's built on an ipse-dixit which is a unfounded assertion that the constitution is colorblind." The idea that a prison could never take into account the fact that if you mix some of these prison gangs together you will have a riot was preposterous, Sotomayor added.

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