How far gone is the Roberts court?

The census citizenship question case will show us if Supreme Court conservatives have any integrity left

The Trump administration is attempting to add a citizenship question to the United States Census survey for the first time in 70 years. The motivation for this, claim administration lawyers, is that it's necessary to enforce the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — which the conservative Supreme Court majority seemingly accepted in oral arguments.

But new evidence has come to light proving beyond question that the real motivation is racist disenfranchisement. It raises the question of just how far Chief Justice John Roberts will go to undermine American democracy.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.