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"... The problem is, Roberts is woefully wrong on those points, according to
Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin, who on Thursday
branded Roberts’s assertion a slur and made a declaration of his own.
“I’m calling him out,” Galvin said .... boston/massachusetts-official-challenges-chief-justice-roberts-claim-about-voting<Click
How much of this is because of the Voting Rights Act, as opposed to other voter protections that have been adopted since that time, or other societal changes? And even if the Voting Rights Act has been important in facilitating the changes, how many of the gains might be lost if the Section 5 requirements were dropped now?
These are difficult questions that the Supreme Court faces. They are questions of causality – and as any good lawyer knows, establishing a chain of causality is often the most difficult chore in a case.
Statistical analysis can inform the answers if applied thoughtfully. But statistics can obscure the truth when they become divorced from the historical, legal and logical context of a case.
A version of this article appeared in print on 03/08/2013, on page A16 of the NewYork edition with the headline: A Justice’s Use Of Statistics, Viewed Skeptically.
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