“What Biden, Kennedy, and Metzenbaum are really worried about is that Bork will repeal their Miranda rights.” national review, October 23, 1987.
The Republican Party has come up with a cute idea, and that is to ally itself with black and Hispanic politicians to preserve, and if possible multiply, minority congressional districts during reapportionment. They hope to weaken white incumbent Democrats, whose districts would be carved up or consolidated in order to give minorities a fair (sic) shot. Now it’s certainly understandable that a party whose tail has been kicked as badly as the GOP’s has would grasp at any means of improving its position. But the principle of the minority district was always fraudulent. The notion that the only way blacks and Hispanics can make their voices heard is through black and Hispanic representatives undercuts the very notion of democratic representation— which is the representation of opinion. The GOP used to oppose such notions. A desire to hoist the enemy with his own petard is not reason enough to embrace them.
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