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Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
David Daley
2024
US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts at Donald Trump’s 2025 address to both chambers of Congress.(Win McNamee / Getty Images)

The Supreme Court’s Death Blow Against Voting Rights Is Roberts’ 50-Year Crusade

Beginning with his first job in the Reagan DOJ, the chief justice has been hell-bent on dismantling the Voting Rights Act.
by David Daley via The Nation
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on April 29, 2026
Collage of John Roberts, Ronald Reagan, and a voting booth.

John Roberts’s Dream Is Finally Coming True

The chief justice has been working to neuter the Voting Rights Act since the beginning of his career.
by David Daley via The Atlantic
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on December 10, 2025
John Roberts, Lewis F. Powell Jr., and a statue of Lady Justice between them.

There’s a New Lewis Powell Memo, and It’s Wildly Racist

One young conservative lawyer would lead a determined fight to maintain Lewis Powell’s blindfolded race neutrality.
by David Daley via Slate
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on August 6, 2024
4 photo collage illustrating the partnership between the White League and the Ku Klux Klan in engaging in vigilante terrorism and racial violence

Colfax, Cruikshank, and the Latter-Day War on Reconstruction

Unearthing the deep roots of racialized voter suppression—and explaining how they shape ballot access today.
by David Daley via The Forum on August 3, 2022
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