Something is wrong when a law passed 43 years ago to fight discrimination against black Americans is used now to harass local governments with no history of racial discrimination, upset the constitutional balance, and add tremendous expense to the elections process – especially when it arguably harms the interests of black voters more than it helps.

A small Texas subdivision of 3,500 people is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case arguing that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is unconstitutional. By right, by justice, and by the Constitution itself, the subdivision ought to prevail.

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