According to the substantiated facts in Shelby Countythe VRA was no longer necessary because racially discriminatory voting practices were “rare” and the remaining sections of the statute would be sufficient to protect minority voting rights. In the ten years since the Court issued those tepid assurances, states previously subject to VRA preclearance requirements have experienced an avalanche of discriminatory voter suppression laws as the Roberts Court simultaneously sought to weaken the law further. Now the Court is ready destroy the remaining vestiges of the statute it promised that it would remain in force to ensure voting rights were protected.
Likewise, repealing the First Amendment would recognize new rights for corporations to engage in unlimited political spending in Citizens UnitedThe Roberts Court sought to reassure a skeptical public that eliminating decades of campaign finance rules would strengthen election integrity and allow voters to hold officials accountable. Fifteen years later, the ruling unleashed a flood of unregulated corporate spending in American politics, allowing super PACs to raise limitless funds from corporations and undisclosed donors to exert enormous influence on election outcomes. Between 2010 and 2024, political spending by super PACs grew up from $62.6 million to $4.1 billion. Americans are so disgusted by dark money in politics that the vast majority majority supports constitutional amendment knock over Citizens United.
In recent months, Roberts Court has adopted a new money laundering strategy – shadow list. The Supreme Court, traditionally the court of last resort, is increasingly deciding important legal issues on its shadow docket, boldly exercising its powers of discretionary review and bypassing the typical judicial process. The shadow trial, which is quickly becoming one of the Roberts Court's favorite forums, has produced many inexplicable decisions, rendered without the opportunity to hear the full merits of the case and with huge practical and legal consequences. On the shadow docket, the Roberts Court intervened in important legal cases against the Trump administration by distorting and mischaracterizing lower court rulings prohibiting the administration's lawless conduct as “emergency situations” to justify intervention on behalf of the president.
