The Ku Klux Klan should dedicate their next cross-burning to John Roberts

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/the-docket-roberts-voting-rights.html

Chief Justice Roberts Played the Long Game on Voting Rights
Since his early days as a lawyer and in his first years on the bench, the chief justice has worked to limit the force of the Voting Rights Act.
By Adam Liptak
April 30, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET

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As far back as 1982, when he was a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, he worked to oppose the expansion of a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had initially covered only intentional discrimination, to address practices that had discriminatory results. Back then, his efforts failed.

On the court, Chief Justice Roberts first flirted with cutting back the law in 2009, four years into his tenure and the year after I started covering the court.

His final answer, coming after companion rulings in 2013 and 2021 that offered partial thoughts, arrived Wednesday. The Times provided thorough coverage of the decision itself, the legacy it undid and the redistricting scramble it set off.

For my part, I explored the ruling’s central premise: that the law is no longer needed given how far the nation has come in achieving racial equality.

In this edition of The Docket, I thought I’d have a look at the reaction from the legal academy.

It has been overwhelmingly negative. Election law scholars called the Supreme Court’s voting rights decision on Wednesday a “disaster,” a “catastrophe” and “the worst ruling in a century.”

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Roberts is a lying, conniving scumbag


https://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/12/roberts.statement/