Today the Supreme Court decided the Texas redistricting case by a 6-3 vote. I'll get to my analysis later, but I have to cover some other ground first.
I recently read R. Shep Melnick's review of Michelle Adams's new book on Milliken v. Bradley. I was familiar with the Supreme Court's landmark decision that curtailed forced busing. But I did not know much about the lower court litigation, which Adams covers in some detail.
Judge Stephen John Roth presided over the case. It seems that Judge Roth was initially skeptical of the claim that he could order children throughout Detroit to be bussed to faraway schools. As Melnick relates, Judge Roth went through a "conversion" after a 41-day trial:
