Did John Roberts Really Just Save Voting Rights?
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
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John Roberts' Opposition to the Voting Rights Act
Mark O'Mara: Is this the chief justice making a kind of opportunistic decision to be law and order guy, rule of law guy or has he changed his worldview on the voting rights act? He says Roberts could do that when he was the swing vote. But in this situation, he I think probably had to work really hard for Brett Kavanaugh's vote because they were so close to an election. Moya: This is the John Roberts who made periodic institutional statements from the court to say we are not going to get bossed around by conservative lawyers and red states.
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