Chief Justice John Roberts created the legal landscape that doomed the voting rights bill

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"When you see lines of Black people waiting hours and hours to vote, you can largely thank John Roberts for these scenes of racism. And he hasn't gotten nearly enough blame for it," writes @ElieNYC.

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Chief Justice John Roberts created the legal landscape that doomed the voting rights bill, author...
Author Elie Mystal tells CNN that Chief Justice John Roberts has devoted his legal career to suppressing Black Americans' voting rights.
1:48 PM · Feb 7, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/22/politics/john-roberts-voting-rights-mystal-blake-cec/index.html


(CNN)People cite a familiar cast of villains when they talk about the decline of democracy in America.

Some point to the GOP legislators who craft voter suppression bills. Others blame those who spread the "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Some even mention the two Democratic Senators who doomed voting rights legislation this week because they would not alter the filibuster.

But there is someone most people rarely mention when talking about roadblocks to voting or the decline of democracy, says legal analyst Elie Mystal: Chief Justice John Roberts.

Mystal, one of the most sought-after legal analysts in the country and author of the forthcoming book, "Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution," sat down with CNN for a recent Q&A on race, voting rights and the decline of democracy in the US.

Mystal says people can't talk about these issues without talking about Roberts' central role in removing federal oversight of elections to allow unfettered voter suppression to become normalized. Roberts' majority opinion in the 2013 Shelby v. Holder decision was a crucial milestone in his decades-long campaign to turn back racial progress, Mystal says.

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[NewHendoLib]

1. What a fucking asshole he is

[Peregrine Took]

3. +100

Just recall him at the Impeachment Hearings....sitting there like a potted plant while that travesty rolled on before him.

I wonder if he wasn't involved in the Brooks Brothers riot - I'll have to google that!

[onecaliberal]

2. It's Roberts fault.

[IA8IT]

4. Don't you smile at me you SOB. My customer to the previous owner of house I was restoring.

Previous owner smiled and waived at us as he drove by while I was showing new owner mortar and paint used to replace rotten window sills on many of the Big Old Victorian home he had just bought.

Repubican SCOTUS nominees present as paragons of virtue to the constitution until they are confirmed.

Lie Lie Lie

[CousinIT]

5. Repukes: "It was self-defense"

[Scrivener7]

6. It's why they hired him, and he sure delivered.

[hippywife]

7. Absofuckinglutely!

I read this article when it was published 7 years ago and it really stuck with me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/magazine/voting-rights-act-dream-undone.html