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[https://www.vox.com/21211880/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-voting-rights-act-election-2020 Chief Justice Roberts’s lifelong crusade against voting rights, explained VOX By Ian Millhiser Sep 18, 2020] | |||
The House had recently passed legislation extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a seminal civil rights bill that dismantled much of Jim Crow — and shoring up one of its key provisions after a 1980 Supreme Court decision had severely weakened the law. Meanwhile, a filibuster-proof majority of the Senate had co-sponsored the same bill. | |||
Roberts was distraught. | |||
“Something must be done to educate the Senators on the seriousness of this problem,” Roberts wrote his boss, Smith, just a few days before Christmas. In a subsequent memo, he argued that the rapidly advancing bill — which now forms much of the backbone of American voting rights law — was “not only constitutionally suspect, but also contrary to the most fundamental tenants [sic] of the legislative process on which the laws of this country are based.” | |||
=====Pamela Karlan speaks during impeachment hearing 12/04/19===== | =====Pamela Karlan speaks during impeachment hearing 12/04/19===== | ||
Pamela Karlan is a professor of law at the Stanford Law School. She has a serious person’s resume—something that most ranking Republicans do not have. She has worked on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and is one of the leading attorneys on voting rights in the country. She took exception to Rep. Collins’ weak-sauce dismissal of her expertise in her opening remarks to the committee.[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/4/1903468/-Law-professor-expertly-shreds-ranking-Republican-during-impeachment-hearing DailyKos 12/04/19] | Pamela Karlan is a professor of law at the Stanford Law School. She has a serious person’s resume—something that most ranking Republicans do not have. She has worked on the California Fair Political Practices Commission and for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and is one of the leading attorneys on voting rights in the country. She took exception to Rep. Collins’ weak-sauce dismissal of her expertise in her opening remarks to the committee.[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/4/1903468/-Law-professor-expertly-shreds-ranking-Republican-during-impeachment-hearing DailyKos 12/04/19] | ||
