Clyburn: Roberts to join ranks of 'infamous' Supreme Court justices over voting rights decision
Key takeaways
- Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) claimed that Supreme Court Justice Chief John Roberts will join the ranks of infamous high court justices over a recent decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act.
- I never thought I would see the day that the United States Supreme Court would be so openly partisan with what it s been doing, Clyburn told CNN s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday.
- Taney authored the Supreme Court s 1857 ruling in Dred Scott v.
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Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) claimed that Supreme Court Justice Chief John Roberts will join the ranks of infamous high court justices over a recent decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act.
I never thought I would see the day that the United States Supreme Court would be so openly partisan with what it s been doing, Clyburn told CNN s Jake Tapper on State of the Union Sunday.
And I really believe if you look at all of these decisions, and you look at the history of the country, I think that Justice Roberts is going to take his place alongside some other infamous justices like [former Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger] Taney, who gave us the Dred Scott decision, he added.