I wonder if John Roberts is rethinking his delusion that the Voting Rights Act is no longer needed

[StarfishSaver]

... given what he's seen over the past few weeks.

Nearly 50 years later, things have changed dramatically. Largely because of the Voting Rights Act, “[v]oter turnout and registration rates” in covered jurisdictions “now approach parity. Blatantly discriminatory evasions of federal decrees are rare. And minority candidates hold office at unprecedented levels.” The tests and devices that blocked ballot access have
been forbidden nationwide for over 40 years. Yet the Act has not eased §5’s restrictions or narrowed the scope of §4’s coverage formula along the way. Instead those extraordinary and unprecedented features have been reauthorized as if nothing has changed, and they have grown even stronger.

Chief Justice John Roberts, Shelby v. Holder, 2013

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/12-96_6k47.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwi7zKvexM7tAhUBP6wKHag1AnkQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw1-7OfT6EiAHCb7Mebj2j-D

[dem4decades]

1. He knew what he was doing. He succeeded.

[Solomon]

8. Yes. Like Renquist he spent a good portion of his career working against voting rights.

The supreme court is how they get rewarded for such glorious work. Never ceases to amaze me the accolades and hope that people heap upon asshole like Roberts.

[uponit7771]

2. Those "test and devices" were being implemented the year he made this judgement. Its overt racism to

... willfully be blind to overt racism, either Roberts with an adversary of equal rights or and idiot to the same.

Neither is preferred where he sits.

This judgement was as disgustingly willfully blind or overtly ignorant as to ways outside companies can get past election finance laws (till to this day) in the US like Rudy Giuliani's Friends did.

[intheflow]

3. Source? n/t

[StarfishSaver]

5. Sorry - accidentally deleted the link. Re-added it.

[intheflow]

7. Thanks.

[malaise]

4. That is what created this entire mess

Rec

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Good question...especially after all of the crap that rump and thugs have been doing...

and are still doing...

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Surely if Roberts is right, black people hold significant % of elected offices in the south ...

(source: Reasonbly Prudent Person as reported in https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214710882 )

[Hekate]

10. It's hard to know, isn't it? I was sick at heart when he did that...

One of the great legislative accomplishments of my lifetime, the Voting Rights Act, was overturned by that fool and his cohort. Unbelievable.