Roberts actually was the deciding vote in Dept. of Commerce vs. New York, in which the Supreme Court disallowed the administration’s desire to add a citizenship question to the census. The decision was based in large part on this information in Hoefeller’s files.
Human beings are complex, and people don’t fit neatly into black and white boxes. Also see ‘Splitting’.
Republicans.
Roberts also authored the opinion that struck down the core of the Voting Rights Act, in which he argued that racism was over and it was unfair for the federal government to keep treating these historically super-racist states like they were still super-racist.
I’m not going to give the man brownie points for being forced to do the right thing in the face of overwhelming incontrovertible evidence when he so willfully went along with the very same efforts when they were still only barely more covert.
“Maybe it’s the dancer,
maybe it’s the dance the dancer dances.”
Can’t see someone’s heart, only their actions. “By their fruit ye shall know them.”
Emails are the tool of the devil
Yes! Because anything that may become public is by its very nature evil! We can only guess that he wanted to nuke archive.org, Wikipedia and similar sites from orbit.
“My guy isn’t racist because he only supports this obviously racist policy for non-racist reasons?”
Well, if you’ve persuaded yourself that racism is an act of an individual against individuals, this indignation comes easy.
But, if you believe that individual choices should matter more than the structural power of groups, how can you build a professional career on making sure that individual choices don’t matter?
Really? WTF!
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