In the early part of the last century a flamboyant federal judge named Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who would eventually become the first commissioner of professional baseball, reportedly sentenced an elderly burglar to a lengthy prison term. When the graybeard felon protested that he couldn’t serve that long, Landis is said to have told him, “Well, do the best you can.”
All of the justices of the Supreme Court agreed Monday that parts of the antiquated Voting Rights Act pose significant constitutional problems.
In at least one respect, littering is like speeding: If there’s a crackdown on it, somebody’s sure to complain that authorities ought to be devoting their attention to “real” crime.
