It was hard to take Chief Justice John Roberts seriously when he said last week that Supreme Court justices aren’t “political actors.”
That’s not only because he made the remark coming off the court’s latest kneecapping of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais, where the justices split 6-3 along the party lines of the presidents who appointed them, but also due to other recent rulings in which the GOP-appointed majority delivered decisions that align with Republican political goals.
The court’s latest election-related action on Monday night further weakened Roberts’ claim of apoliticism.
Splitting along those same party
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