“It is a sordid business, this divvying us up by race,” #JohnRoberts wrote in a dissenting opinion in 2006 in his first major #VotingRights case as chief justice.
In 2013, Roberts wrote for the majority in gutting the landmark law’s requirement that states & local governments with a history of #discrimination, mostly in the South, get approval before making any election-related changes.
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