This is what the Supreme Court said in 2013 when it invalidated the heart of the Voting Rights Act

[Tom Rinaldo]

From the New York Times of that time:

"The chief justice recalled the Freedom Summer of 1964, when the civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were murdered near Philadelphia, Miss., while seeking to register black voters. He mentioned Bloody Sunday in 1965, when police officers beat marchers in Selma, Ala.

“Today,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote, “both of those towns are governed by African-American mayors. Problems remain in these states and others, but there is no denying that, due to the Voting Rights Act, our nation has made great strides.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/26/us/supreme-court-ruling.html

Great strides? Voter suppression is newly rampant again. Our President is a white nationalist racist, and civil rights activists are being run down and killed in Charlottesville.

[rurallib]

1. give them an inch and they take your vote and your democracy

[DFW]

2. A stride backwards is not what the Voting Rights Act strove to accomplish

And Roberts knew that full well.

[Tom Rinaldo]

3. Right. Repeal sought to accomplish that stride backwards

And Roberts indeed knew that full well, whether or not he fully foresaw the headfirst slide back into the cesspool of Nazi & KKK Racism that voter suppression during the 2016 election has again unleashed on America

[DFW]

4. I don't think he foresaw it to the extent that it occurred

However, the fact that he hasn't seemed overly perturbed over those consequences is cause enough for dismay.

[LisaM]

5. Did he honestly believe it wouldn't happen again?

Did he miss the 2000 election and ChoicePoint, or the suppression in Ohio and 2004? I hope he is taking a deep look inside himself and I hope he doesn't like what he sees. I hope he sees what Citizens United did.