More SCOTUS Fuckery

I'm seriously so tired of the Supreme Court and their goddamned 5-4 rulings that leave nationally important decisions in the hands of one swing-voting justice:

The Supreme Court narrowed the reach of the Voting Rights Act, ruling that a measure aimed at helping minorities elect their preferred candidates only applies in electoral districts where minorities number more than 50% of the voting-age population.

…The 5-4 ruling rejected arguments that the voting act could require legislative mapmakers to draw so-called crossover districts -- those with a substantial but less than 50% nonwhite population. In a crossover district, the idea is that minority voters would create alliances with white voters to elect their chosen candidates.

…The court's five-justice right wing split over its reasoning. While Justice Kennedy's plurality preserved some room for minorities to claim their votes had been diluted, in other circumstances the two most conservative justices, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, contended that such suits should always be barred.

…Justice David Souter, writing for the four liberal dissenters, argued that the ruling did the opposite. A crossover district was better than a "majority-minority district" -- where a minority group holds more than 50% -- "precisely because it requires polarized factions to break out of the mold and form the coalitions that discourage racial divisions," he wrote. He was joined by Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer.

The hat tip goes to Shaker Siobhan, who notes that the best line in the article is when Loyola Law School election-law specialist Richard Hasen dryly notes: "There might be a slight Republican benefit to this decision."

Ya think?