{"id":12846643,"date":"2025-10-15T12:24:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T16:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12846643"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:45:12","slug":"john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2025\/10\/15\/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america\/","title":{"rendered":"John Roberts is slowly dismantling America"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/10\/15\/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america\/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user\/Salon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Roberts is slowly dismantling America<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?<\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/writer\/david_daley\">David Daley, Salon<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chief justice arrived from central casting, in the guise of the midwestern dad next door, remembering the Indiana farmland of his boyhood and promising that he viewed the job through the eyes of another American civic religion: Baseball.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/john_roberts\">John Roberts<\/a>\u00a0would simply be the umpire,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sgCzS3b6Rns&amp;pp=ygUeam9obiByb2JlcnRzIGJhbGxzIGFuZCBzdHJpa2Vz\">calling balls and strikes<\/a>, with no rooting interest \u2014 save the integrity of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/topic\/supreme_court\">Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This mythic nonsense has somehow persevered for more than two decades. During that time, Roberts has established himself as something more than just the chief justice. He is the most effective and successful Republican political operative of his generation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2025\/10\/15\/john-roberts-is-slowly-dismantling-america\/?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_content=user\/Salon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More here &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chief justice arrived from central casting, in the guise of the midwestern dad next door, remembering the Indiana farmland of his boyhood and promising that he viewed the job through the eyes of another American civic religion: Baseball. John Roberts would simply be the umpire, calling balls \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":12846645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1,12,25391],"tags":[371],"class_list":{"0":"post-12846643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-available","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"category-phils-favorites","10":"category-members-corner","11":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12846643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846813,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846643\/revisions\/12846813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12846645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12846643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12846643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12846643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}