John Roberts has now spent two decades “dismantling American democracy,” said in Newsweek . Sworn in as the Supreme Court’s chief justice in fall 2005, the George W. Bush appointee pledged to be a neutral umpire who “calls balls and strikes.” Instead, the conservative-dominated Roberts court has systematically “aggrandized its own power and that of the Republican Party .” It dismantled campaign finance laws with 2010’s Citizens United , opening a path for billionaires to buy power; gutted the Voting Rights Act with 2013’s Shelby County ; and rolled back women’s rights by overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022. “But perhaps the gravest blow to American democracy was delivered in 2024” when the court ruled—in an opinion written by Roberts himself—that presidents enjoy “ presumptive i

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