Schumer flips Supreme Court discrimination ruling 180 degrees to attack Justice Roberts
by Pete Kasperowicz
| November 26, 2018 05:16 PM
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday accused Chief Justice John Roberts of deciding in 2013 that voting discrimination against blacks no longer exists, even though Roberts wrote explicitly at the time that it "still exists."
The Democratic New York lawmaker was on the Senate floor speaking against Thomas Farr, a North Carolina lawyer who is President Trump's pick to be a district court judge in his home state.
Schumer said on the Senate floor that Farr "stands for the disenfranchisement of voters," then raised the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder. That case ended in a Roberts opinion that said a key part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is outdated and needs to be modernized.
Schumer said that opinion showed that Roberts believes voting discrimination no longer exists.
"Justice Roberts will go down in history as one of those who worked to take away voting rights when he authored the Shelby decision and stated that he didn't believe that ... more or less, he stated that he didn't believe that discrimination existed any longer, so we wouldn't need Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act," Schumer said.
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