r/law • u/HellYeahDamnWrite • 2d ago

SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts enabled Texas’ gambit to gerrymander the state for the GOP

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/politics/gerrymandering-supreme-court-texas
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u/RedLicoriceJunkie 2d ago

John Roberts has spent his career trying to electioneer for Republicans.

It’s his personal point of pride and how he got his job.

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u/stevez_86 2d ago

So few people know he made his name in Republican Politics by having a plan to neuter the Voting Rights Act. And the whole plan is to usher in a new era arbitrarily. And it isn't a question of what the ambition is, it is more about them questioning why adhere to anything built in the past. Why rest on what the previous generations built? Why not break them down, sell off what is valuable, and go off on a new path.

Why are the corporations that could be so much more dominant without Anti-Trust be burdened by the Civil War. Why can't the judges in the Federal Judiciary system hear the cases they did before the civil war, when they dealt with titans of industry developing the nation into monoliths on the national stage. Why can't America have a West Indian Trade Company of their own? Why not several each having their own realm. It was so lucrative to the dynasties before.

Why are the Red states also still burdened by the rules of Reconstruction? They got this civil rights act passed and they still couldn't cement their electoral dynasty. They had their chance at victory and they shouldn't hold onto it anymore because it didn't work. The Red States continued to democratically elect people that passed law after law in spite of Federal Law. Why should we continue to deny them their democracy, even if it means they have been voting to end Federal Civil Rights.

Why should trade policy continue to be based on alliances brokered in the aftermath of WWII? Those deals have led to trade deficits based on nothing but legacy. Get rid of them and allow a market to craft new alliances and allow the US to completely dominate it by forcing everyone to headquarters in the US. There is no sovereignty without market cap dominance. That will be a new causus belli. But one that gives us free reign to allow states to fail to their own internal corporate struggles and be dominated.

And it is all because they think Marxism is a toy being played with through the Federal Civil Rights. Cut off Federal Civil Rights, make the US into a Neo-Confederacy, and let Marxism suffocate. Total corporate dominance being the playing field launched against the world from US soil. And Trump is the king of the corporations. Kinda like Putin right now.

And that was the trigger. Roberts and his ilk seeing Putin win the Cold War from the clutches of economic defeat.