Roberts’s Grip Slips as Supreme Court Conservatives Curb Voting Rights
- Chief justice sided with liberals in Alabama voting map case
- Conservative majority pushes bold changes on race, abortion
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Chief Justice John Roberts was once in the vanguard as the U.S. Supreme Court rolled back the Voting Rights Act. But as his more conservative colleagues showed Monday in restoring a Republican-drawn Alabama congressional map, Roberts is no longer in control.
Roberts joined the three liberal justices in dissent as the court blocked a lower court ruling that said the landmark 1965 law required Alabama to have a second heavily Black district.