Mother Jones: Chief Justice Roberts "Had It In for the Voting Rights Act"
Gerry Hebert, now executive director of the Campaign Legal Center, was also at the DOJ. He recalls that Roberts "had it in for the Voting Rights Act," which Roberts thought should cover only intentional discrimination, not discriminatory results or effects of state voting regulations. But proving intentional discrimination is virtually impossible—and besides, Hebert says, judges "don't want to find that somebody was a racist." They'd rather focus on the discriminatory impact of a law. "I don't think John Roberts ever got that."