The worst chief justice of all time

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American history has no shortage of legendarily bad chief justices and disgraceful decisions. But Chief Justice John Roberts has overseen the wholesale corruption and capture of the Supreme Court, and history should look back on his tenure with revulsion.

This isn’t about whether there are individual cases from the past that are worse than any individual Roberts-era decision. It’s that compared to previous chief justices, the entire arch of the Robert Court has been about enshrining discrimination into law and protecting the powerful at the expense of the powerless.

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In Roberts’s 20 years atop the Court, conservatives have rolled back the already meager protections for LGBTQ people, making sure to finish the most recent term by kicking trans kids in the teeth. Reproductive rights have been comprehensively gutted, from allowing private for-profit companies to invoke religion to refuse to provide birth control coverage to overturning the constitutional right to abortion. Also, racism is apparently completely fixed, so school desegregation and affirmative action had to go. So too did the core of the Voting Rights Act, letting Roberts fulfill his lifelong ambition of making it harder for Black people to vote.

There’s an obvious connection between the Fuller Court’s fiction that workers and employers have the same amount of power and the Roberts Court’s open and obvious goal of tilting the playing field toward employers. More workers are being forced to agree to arbitration, which strongly favors employers, and waive their right to bring class actions. Public sector unions are now barred from collecting fair share fees, undercutting their ability to bargain collectively. But don’t worry: per Justice Samuel Alito, that’s totally fine because of the “considerable windfall that unions have received.” Roberts spared America the tyranny of a requirement that agriculture companies allow labor organizers to come onto their property, saying that such a requirement was a “taking” by the government for which the employers needed to be compensated.

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— Poli Alert (@polialert.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T00:25:49.248Z

Sure, trump is bad, but for 20 years Roberts and his conservative court have taken away Americans rights, free will and our dignity.