The real "civil rights" complaint against Roberts
A few days ago, I argued that the complaints against what John Roberts wrote 20 years ago about civil rights law boil down to the fact that he was against racial quotas. Ed Whelan shows how this is true with respect to complaints about what Roberts wrote on the Voting Rights Act.
Ed sums it up nicely when he writes:
Roberts’s documents show that he embraced the “bedrock principle of treating people on the basis of merit without regard to race or sex.” The Left’s vision, as Roberts recognized way back then, treats people not as individuals but as members of castes or social groups and focuses “on advancing particular groups as groups.”
