Well then, now you’ve seen his arrogance, make sure you never speak against the gods, or give yourself ideas of your own grandeur, if your strength of hand or heaped-up riches [130] should outweigh some other man’s. A single day pulls down any human’s scale of fortune or raises it once more. But the gods love 170 men who possess good sense and self-control and despise the ones who are unjust. I’m just as strong, with the work of my own hands I have attained achievements just as great, but, as you see, these Argive insults have quite ruined me. [440] And yet I think I can affirm this much— had Achilles lived and been about to judge the man who should receive his weapons, the prize for being the finest man in war, no soldier would have put his hand on them
Blog post from SCOTUSblog. Written by Lyle Denniston . Preclearance requirement sought for Texas on voting The Obama administration, seeking to salvage significant power to stop racial discrimination in voting even after a major defeat in the Supreme Court, will be asking federal courts to put the state of Texas under a continuing duty to get official permission in Washington for any changes it wants to make in its election laws or methods. Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed that plan Thursday in a speech to the annual meeting of the Urban League, in Philadelphia. Holder said the Justice Department will ask a federal district court in Texas to apply the “preclearance” requirement under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to Texas. That could only be done now, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling last month in Shelby County v. Holder, by having a court apply the so-called “bail-in” provision of the 1965 law’s Section 3. That provision was left intact by the Supreme Court.