Sounding the alarm in 1998, Camille Cosby warned that the Voting Rights Act, which President Lyndon B. Johnson signed in 1965, was set to expire in 2007. Now, the high court has completed gutted the law.

A $60 million hammer on a 54-year-old claim, a payout twice as large as what came out of the O.J. Simpson civil case, where that jury decided the former football star killed two people. Suddenly, the scales of justice appear unbalanced, resembling a transaction rather than a fair process.