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Do you understand how reactionary you had to be for lawyers in the *Reagan Justice Department* to remember you as a “zealot” for making it harder for Black people to vote ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...
Roberts's memos from this period indicate that he took the assignment very seriously. Violations of Section 2, he wrote, should not be "too easy to prove, since they provide a basis for the most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes." In another memo, Roberts argued that creating an "effects test" within the Voting Rights Act was unnecessary, because there was "no evidence of voting abuses nationwide supporting the need for such change." He urged Smith, his boss, to take an "aggressive stance" against the proposed amendment, and to not be "fooled" by its supporters. Colleagues recalled Roberts getting frustrated with what he perceived as the administration's reluctance to more vociferously attack the proposal, and described him as a "zealot" who harbored "fundamental suspicions" about the Voting Rights Act's utility, as Berman recounts in his 2015 book, Give Us the Ballot.
October 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM