Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on Capitol Hill on Aug. 6, 1965. (AP) A former University of Chicago lecturer in constitutional law was, as he often is, loftily disappointed by the failure of others to meet his standards.

Drew Sheneman leads this week’s editorial cartoon gallery with his view of the court’s conservative justices as vultures picking the last remnants of flesh off the carcass of

The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday rolling back protections for Black and Latino voters marks another dramatic turn in the long-fought effort by conservative justices to reverse measures vital to overcoming America’s legacy of race discrimination.

Did it work? A Supreme Court majority thinks so. Its ruling against a Louisiana congressional map this week didn’t knock the 1965 law down, but justices said the measure was no longer as important as it once was.