The Roberts Court Is on Track Again To Limit Freedom and Deny Constitutional Rights | Opinion
newsweek.comJohn Roberts said, "Judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them."I assume Justice Roberts was sincere in his belief of this view of the judiciary.
But, almost 20 years later, we see that his court has consistently rewrote the rules of the game in service of an over 40-year conservative campaign to stack the judiciary with judges that work to achieve Republican policy priorities.The most obvious example is the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v.
Wade, but the Roberts Court has overseen massive retrenchment of hard-fought civil rights—gutting the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 2013, which required states with a history of discriminatory voting practices to seek approval for any changes to voting laws.After this was overturned, dozens of states immediately enacted a host of laws that infringe on Black people's right to vote including voter ID laws and poll closures.
Another component of the VRA is now being challenged in the Supreme Court's current term, which prohibits voting practices that discriminate based on race.
