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)

https://www.salon.com/2025/10/15/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america/

[dalton99a]

1. John Roberts is as much a traitor to the Constitution as Donald Trump.

[enough]

2. Worse, because he's in the position because he's supposed to be

intelligent, thoughtful, well educated, and faithfully considering the Constitution and the nation.

[slightlv]

9. Even more so, IMO...

he's got brains, training, and he's suppose to be a real judge. Too bad he was in all the time just for "owning the libs"... gods, when will these people ever grow up and realize they are not alone in walking this earth!

[returnee]

22. As are the other 5....

…who support these horrible rulings. He can’t do it alone.

[Tribetime]

3. If they overturn the voting rights act it wil almost guarantee

Republicans of winning in 2026 Mark Elias warned on B T Cohen.

[wolfie001]

4. HIS WIFE WAS RIDING NEXT TO HIM THE WHOLE TIME!

Is that loud enough? She's a POS too. They work together like the Alitos and the Thomases. All vile rat-fuckers. That's all I got.

[bronxiteforever]

5. After the Dredd Scott Taney Court, it's the Robert's Court for sure.

There is still time for the Robert’s Court to actually bring back slavery.

[littlemissmartypants]

7. Scary thought. I hope it's not prescient.

[slightlv]

11. I worry... as much as we're copying the planetary alignments

and what happened during those times... ala the Revolution and the Civil War... I do worry about it. History is repeating itself... it's not just rhyming anymore.

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Very good point, slightlv. ❤️

[Harker]

6. Briskly, rather than slowly.

[AverageOldGuy]

8. There is a complication

The central question is whether it is constitutional to take race into account when it comes to redistricting.

Assume a region with an area where Black families are concentrated. There are two alternatives.

ONE. Split the Black community between/among 2 or more voting districts, thereby making them a minority in each district.

TWO. Create a "Majority-Minority District" which keeps the Black community together and, essentially, gerrymanders a district to give one minority a guaranteed electoral majority in that district. There are "Majority-Minority Districts" all over the country.

Now, while I as a lifelong FDR New Deal Democrat who grew up in the Jim Crow South support #TWO, why is is right to provide a racial minority group a gerrymandered district of their own but it is wrong to split the Black community among other districts, making them a minority in each district? Both decisions are made on the basis of race.

[slightlv]

13. I don't have a good answer to your question...

other than to say I'd rather have whatever is fairer to the people of the district.

I live in a red state, in a redder than red city... and I'm getting damned tired of my vote being gerrymandered out of existence! Problem is.... I'm white. But I'm as blue a democrat as you can get... FDR style, myself. Happened when I lived in KcK... has happened to me twice where I live now. And I've only lived here 6 years!

[dpibel]

18. Try this

One is an attempt to right a historical wrong.

The other is an effort to perpetuate it.

[NNadir]

10. There's nothing slow about it.

Who knew that by degree Ralph Nader would participate in the destruction of our democracy.

[JT45242]

12. Roberts is distant second to McConnell...turtle stole him to 6 votes

If mcturtle had not lied, cheated, etc Roberts would be on the minority side of a lot of 5 to 4 votes.

Scumbag chief justice has run amok with the power that Mcturtle gave him.

The two stolen seats and the unwillingness of the Dems in 2021 to add justices to equal the number of appeals court regions is what allies this political hack to operate with no repurcussion or morals.

[returnee]

23. McConnell is one of the culprits.

One of many, unfortunately. Plenty of blame to go round.

[Botany]

14. bush v Gore is still hurting and burning America to the ground.

No bush v Gore and the LEGALY cast ballots would have been counted and Al Gore would have become
President and John Roberts and Samuel Alito would not be on the court.

For that matter Goursch, Kavanaugh, Coney-Island Barret, and Thomas (3 other women were ready
to testify that Thomas had done the same thing to them as Anita Hill testified to) should not be on
the court too.

[Pepsidog]

15. Hard to think the outcome will be any different than other race based cases. These maniacs have consistently held that

if race is to be considered then the law in question violates the 14th amendment. So even though the 14th & 15th amendments were passed specifically to protect the rights of freed slaves, SCOTUS ignores the legislative intent and claims any mention of race violates the Constitution. How’s that for Conservative logic. I hope Justice Jackson tees off on these traitors.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. I'm with you on this

[pat_k]

17. not so slowly (nt)

[spanone]

20. Is hasn't been that 'slowly'.

[TBF]

21. With this guy I really wondered if he was part of the Epstein crew -

anything is possible, but he also seems to be just very conservative and religious. So, perhaps the Christian Nationalism is his deal. Whatever is behind it, the decisions are very deliberate. He knows exactly what he is doing.