"..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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"..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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trouble and, more important, the humiliation of extra screening without evidence that they were still practicing discrimination. Congress was free to draw up a new map based on current circumstances, he said."
To read the rest of his objection: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/chief-justice-robertss-vendetta-against-voting-rights-act href="/search?t=posts&q=:~:text=But%20John%20Roberts%20wasn't,changes%20to%20their%20voting%20laws.">#:~:text=But%20John%20Roberts%20wasn't,changes%20to%20their%20voting%20laws.
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The "Federalist" society has always been as big a farce as originalism.
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