John Roberts doesn't believe in the Constitution. He believes in protecting the court's reputation so they can go back to shredding the Constitution when no one is looking. This vote just proves he uses his vote to benefit the GOP. #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #SCOTUS https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-06-08/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-ruling
LA Times is really misleading here.
Firstly, that’s not what the ruling said. The ruling just said that the lower court properly applied SCOTUS precedents in rejecting a map.
But the Times’s story misleads that there is a contradiction here. Even if Roberts opposed a clause in a law, now it’s his job to rule on laws even if he doesn’t personally favor them.
It’s a completely different job in a completely different situation.
I wasn’t talking about the juxtaposition.
For example, regardless of anything else, it’s simply not relevant that Roberts took that position in the past while working in a different role. The paper brings that up to spin a misleading tale that the guy has changed his position.
It is misleading in its own, standalone right.
@volkris The juxtaposition is mine. Those little blue dashes were my attempt at indicating that I pasted together the two passages. You're right that this would have been the wrong way to report this in the newspaper. I was making a point that the paper was not.