John Roberts who I will not even honor with his title has been working at removing the VRA ever since the 80's. "Long-Term Strategy: Roberts' efforts against the VRA date back to the 1980s, when he was a young lawyer in the Justice Department attempting to narrow the scope of the act."

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"..And yet from his earliest days, Roberts has expressed more concern about the unequal treatment of states than the unequal treatment of people. As he put it in one 1982 memo, the law represents “the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.” "
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The "Federalist" society has always been as big a farce as originalism.
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"..he effectively destroyed Section 5 by invalidating the preclearance map. “Things have changed dramatically” in the South, Roberts wrote. And because the states have “equal sovereignty” (a principle he more or less pulled out of a hat), it was not fair to continue to subject some of them to the
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