The Supreme Court is the great threat to voting rights in our era. We miss this because we think of voting rights as a question of who gets to vote but we miss the question of what they get to vote on. You have not gained voting rights if as the proportion of people who get to vote increases the number of things they get to vote on decreases. After finally helping to win the battel to expand the electorate the Supreme Court now occupies itself with contracting the range of issues the electorate is able to vote on. The nature of marriage, bi-lingual education, abortion, crime control--in area after area of public policy the people's right to vote has been eliminated or rendered meaningless.
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