BILL MAHER: This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Voting Rights Act, which Justice Scalia called a racial entitlement, and people were very upset about that. But, that's Scalia, he's a little bit of a bomb thrower, right? He likes that kind of stuff. But, the truth is that maybe the Voting Rights Act is not helping minorities, because it was designed to help minorities by gerrymandering districts.



What they wanted to do, back in the '60s, is make sure that blacks had representation in Congress. So, they redrew -- and that's gerrymandering -- districts so that all the black votes would be in one district, and yes, we now have something like 40-something black members in Congress. But when they did that, what it also did was create a lot of lily white districts, where you could have crazy right-winger Republicans get elected. And that's not good for the country. So, what do you think? Should they get rid of the Voting Rights Act or not? (HBO's Real Time, March 1, 2013)