http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/06/fair_housing_act_supreme_court_ruling_anthony_kennedy_and_the_court_acknowledge.html

On Thursday, in a 5–4 opinion  written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan, the Supreme Court held that the 1968 Fair Housing Act—passed in the wake of Martin Luther King’s assassination, huge riots, and urban destruction—allows federal action against “disparate impact” as well as overt discrimination. This ruling not only affirms an essential tool in combating racial discrimination, it upholds the view that racial disparities are a national problem that the government ought to combat.