Verrilli warned Holder things might be worse than they feared: The court intended to go after the entirety of preclearance, the VRA's most crucial enforcement mechanism.
Verrilli had underestimated how meticulously John Roberts had planned for this moment... He never imagined that he'd be hit with such mendacious numbers and arguments.
The dishonest reasoning behind Roberts's decision... haunts the solicitor general to this day. It has remade American democracy as well.
Three years earlier, a test case known as Northwest Austin allowed Roberts to carefully plant the seeds for the challenge that foes of voting rights law mounted in Shelby County.
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