John Roberts Is George Wallace With A Harvard Law Degree - Crooks & Liars

[justaprogressive]

George Wallace was sworn in as Governor of Alabama in 1963 and famously declared in his inauguration speech (written by a Ku Klux Klan leader) “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” Two years later, Alabama state troopers violently broke up a nighttime voting rights march during which a police officer shot and killed young African American protester and Baptist deacon Jimmie Lee Jackson who was unarmed and protecting his mother.

In response, civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King and John Lewis, organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in an attempt to deliver a civil rights and voting rights message to Gov. Wallace. It became known as “Bloody Sunday” as state troopers gassed and beat the protestors, including fracturing Lewis’ skull and sending 57 others to the hospital. Televised images of the brutal attack shocked the nation, directly leading to President Johnson’s push for the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Numerous Americans, black and white, were injured and even died fighting for the Civil Rights Act. John Roberts and his five Republican Supreme Court colleagues effectively overturned the Civil Rights Act and essentially disenfranchised black voters.

George Wallace tried to disenfranchise black voters with violent state troopers. Roberts disenfranchised black voters with the stroke of a pen. It’s not hyperbole to say that while Roberts wears the black robes of a judge, he may as well wear the white robes of the Klan.

n her dissent to Louisiana v. Callais in which the 6-member Republican majority of the Court effectively overturned Section 2 of the Civil Rights Act, Justice Elena Kagan wrote: “The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history. It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality.” Kagan concluded, “ I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent.”

https://crooksandliars.com/2026/05/john-roberts-george-wallace-harvard-law]

[johnnyfins]

1. And he continues to give speeches lecturing

the American public on how SCOTUS is not deciding cases based on politics.

I think his nose is growing...

[dem4decades]

4. How is it that people don't show their displeasure during his events?

Does he only speak to Klan rallies?

[dave99]

6. Yup, whites only

[Botany]

2. Ever since the 1950 & 60s stopping people of color from voting has been the keystone for the Republicans

John Roberts was installed as Chief Justice of the SCOTUS after the Supreme Court and especially
Sandra Day O’Conner ruled that it was illegal to count the vote in Florida in 2000 and w was made
President and he put Roberts & Alito on the Supreme Court. The elimination of the voting rights act
has been the goal of the Republicans and the Federalist Society for years. Because they know that
very soon whites in America will become a minority and they want to keep power.

The coup continues and American democracy is in critical condition.

Btw when I was kid in N.W. PA our next door neighbor’s brother in a middle class neighborhood
was the Governor of PA, Ray Shafer, he was the finest man I have ever known, and he was a
Republican too.

[Joinfortmill]

11. Eisenhower was a great Republican President in my lifetime

Possibly the only one.

[Botany]

12. Jerry Ford although he was unelected and I might disagree with some of ideas was @ his core a good guy

When he was President his dog, a Golden Retriever called Miss Liberty, took a crap in the Oval Office
and a bunch of staff jumped forward to clean up the mess but President Ford stopped them and
said something like I don’t expect anybody to do that because that is my dog and cleaned it himself.

[Joinfortmill]

13. Yes! Shame on me I forgot about him.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Sen. Joseph Biden voted "Nay!" on Johnny NAZI's confirmation vote.

He was joined in opposing the nominee by 21 Democratic colleagues.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1091/vote_109_1_00245.htm

However, 22 Democrats voted, “Yea.”

[dflprincess]

5. Maybe even worse

Wallace eventially changed his views & sought reconciliation.

[GiqueCee]

7. Roberts was also...

... instrumental in disenfranchising the entire country when he took part in the so-called Brooks Brothers Revolt in Florida to stop recounts after the 2000 election.
It is highly doubtful that Roberts has any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

[mtairyguy]

8. John Roberts can correctly recite the oath of office for everyone except

President Barack Obama. Given a choice between nefarious intent and an accident, for Roberts, I'd choose nefarious intent!

[PCB66]

9. Speaking of George Wallace

In 1968 my parents voted for him for President. It was not because of any political convictions at the time but because my mother was good friends with Cornelia Wallace, his wife. They were friends in college (Rollins College in Winter Park FL) and in Winter Haven. I can remember her visiting our home before she married George. Her and my Mom would sit on the back veranda overlooking the orange grove sipping ice tea.

That is all I have to contribute to this thread.

[Joinfortmill]

10. He sucks. Very concerned about his legacy..

That, too, will suck.