"Back in the 1980s, he was President Ronald Reagan’s point person seeking to block Congress’s strengthening of another key provision of the act. (He failed.) As chief justice, Mr. Roberts has famously written that “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Colorblindness is fast becoming his signature issue. The chief justice is a patient man playing a long game. He was content to wait four years to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. Apparently he likes to say I told you so." nytimes/2013/06/26/opinion/the-chief-justices-long-game.html
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 09:48:38 +0000
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