'John Roberts Is George Wallace With a Harvard Law Degree'

[sop]

"George Wallace was sworn in as Governor of Alabama in 1963 and famously declared in his inauguration speech (written by a Ku Klux Klan leader) 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.' Two years later, Alabama state troopers violently broke up a nighttime voting rights march during which a police officer shot and killed young African American protester and Baptist deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson who was unarmed and protecting his mother."

"In response, civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King and John Lewis, organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to deliver a civil rights and voting rights message to Gov. Wallace. It became known as 'Bloody Sunday' as state troopers gassed and beat the protestors, including fracturing Lewis’ skull and sending 57 others to the hospital. Televised images of the brutal attack shocked the nation, directly leading to President Johnson’s push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965."

"Numerous Americans, black and white, were injured and even died fighting for the Civil Rights Act. John Roberts and his five Republican Supreme Court colleagues effectively overturned the Civil Rights Act and essentially disenfranchised black voters."

"George Wallace tried to disenfranchise black voters with violent state troopers. Roberts disenfranchised black voters with the stroke of a pen. It’s not hyperbole to say that while Roberts wears the black robes of a judge, he may as well wear the white robes of the Klan."

Continued at link:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/john-roberts-voting-rights-act

[magicarpet]

1. With this ruling Black voters in red states are going to see their Black voting districts,....

,.... liquidated, decimated, and eliminate by gerrymandering of re-drawn voting district maps. The number of Blacks seated in the US House pwill very quickly drop dramatically.This was done by design by the six Fascists on the USSC to strip Black voters of their voting power. Gains are made with hard work,.. Then the Fascists of the Federalists Society,... and Fascists like Team trDUMP, and fascists like the Heritage Society gain power of leadership positions then previous gains toward a better Democracy then get quickly stripped away again.

An incremental dance deeper and deeper into the arms of Fascism we go. It slowly becomes normalized it almost goes unnoticed or imperceptible to most people - that we have arrived at the front doorstep of becoming a Nazi Nation. Many Americans find that preferable and more acceptable that our being a vibrant, thriving, and healthy Democracy. Our appreciation for all this should be cast in the direction of US President Donald J. Trump.

[usonian]

2. Wrong. George Wallace repented his horrible behavior later in life.

I am sure that Roberts will write books.

And have his own TV series and catchy musical theme.