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Roberts’s Rule of Disorder in Voting Rights Law

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Solicitor General Donald Verrilli tried to protect the Voting Rights Act before the US Supreme Court in 2013 .

John Roberts had schemed for decades prior to this moment, writes David Gergen .

Gergen : The dishonest reasoning behind Roberts ’s decision eviscerated the most important civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

David Gergen : Chief Justice Roberts brokered a deal to avoid a challenge to the VRA.

He says the liberal justices bought time for Congress to address the court’s impatience with the preclearance formula.

Gergen says Roberts gave birth to the fiction of a “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty” among states, but it doesn’t exist.

The Shelby County decision usurps powers the Constitution specifically awards Congress .

It uses the fictional principle of equal sovereignty, cooked up by Roberts in 2009 , as its basis.

The chief justice obliterated the most successful civil rights legislation this nation has ever seen not just on flimsy criteria but on none at all.

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