Jamelle Bouie: "John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist" #ELB

Jamelle Bouie: "John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist" #ELB

NYT column: For the Roberts court, however, these districts are little more than a “racial entitlement,” to borrow a phrase from Justice Antonin Scalia. In the court’s view, you may have the right to vote, but you do not have… Continue reading The post Jamelle Bouie: “John Roberts Believes in an America That Doesn’t Exist” appeared first on Election Law Blog.

John Roberts and his conservative buddies are living in a fantasy world: NYT analysis

In his New York Times opinion column, Jamelle Bouie argues that Chief Justice John Roberts and the conservative Supreme Court majority operate under a fundamental misunderstanding of American reality, pursuing a "colorblind Constitution" that ignores the nation's persistent racial inequalities. Bouie traces the history of the Voting Rights Act since its 1965 passage, when President Lyndon Johnson called it "a triumph for freedom as huge as any v…