Scalia: "I thought that was the argument you were just making."
Verrilli"It is not"."
Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., 58, jumped in here to state that Massachusetts "has the worst ratio of white voter turnout to African American voter turnout," but the best ratio is in Mississippi. It wasn't clear what point he was making.
Massachusetts Rebuts
Roberts's Slur
Roberts's his assertion was apparently false, according to Massasachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, who commented on [5]WBUR radio[5]March 1:
"I'm disturbed, first of all, that he is
distorting information. You would expect better conduct from the chief justice
of the United States. I'm a lawyer, he's a lawyer, lawyers are not supposed to
provide disinformation in the course of a case. It's supposed to be based on
truth.
"What's really distressing is the deeper we looked into the facts, the more of a distortion his comments are. The only reference that we can find of any kind in any statistical chart is a Census Bureau study from 2010 where, if you included non-citizen blacks, then you would come up with a lower number. That's the only way he could get to even make the bare-face claim that he made."
Roberts later asked Verrilli, "is it the government's submission that the citizens in the south are more racist that citizens in the North?"
"It is not," Verilli said, going on to add something fuzzy about "congruent and proportional" -- rather than just pointing out that it's irrelevant how racist your feelings are, constitutionally, as long as you're allowing all citizens an equal opportunity to vote.
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