John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

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John Roberts is slowly dismantling America
Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

By David Daley
Contributing Writer
Published October 15, 2025 6:30AM (EDT)


(Salon) The chief justice arrived from central casting, in the guise of the midwestern dad next door, remembering the Indiana farmland of his boyhood and promising that he viewed the job through the eyes of another American civic religion: Baseball. John Roberts would simply be the umpire, calling balls and strikes, with no rooting interest — save the integrity of the Supreme Court.

This mythic nonsense has somehow persevered for more than two decades. During that time, Roberts has established himself as something more than just the chief justice. He is the most effective and successful Republican political operative of his generation.

It’s not only that the Roberts Court has enabled President Donald Trump’s muscular, extra-constitutional use of executive power, while also awarding him an entirely fictitious notion of presidential immunity that shields Trump from nearly all accountability. Roberts has also pushed the Constitution to the right and handed conservatives wins on abortion, guns, the environment, voting rights and the regulatory state that scarcely could have been imagined 20 years ago.

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On Wednesday, the Roberts Court will hear Callais v. Louisiana, a case involving Section Two of the Voting Rights Act that is as complicated as it is consequential. The central question is whether it is constitutional to take race into account when it comes to redistricting. The Voting Rights Act — the most successful civil rights legislation in the nation’s history — requires majority-minority seats to be drawn when a minority group is large enough, geographically concentrated and faces racial vote dilution. This protects minority communities from being “cracked” and scattered across multiple districts that all elect a white representative. .........................(more)

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