Chief Justice Roberts Played the Long Game

Adam Liptak: “Wednesday’s bombshell voting rights decision from the Supreme Court is a testament to Chief Justice John Roberts’s patience and penchant for the long game.”

“As far back as 1982, when he was a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, he worked to oppose the expansion of a part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had initially covered only intentional discrimination, to address practices that had discriminatory results. Back then, his efforts failed.”