place, he got close to that role. justice elena kagan slammed saying the majority feared the statute congress wrote is too radical so the majority writes its own set of rules limiting section 2 there multiple directions. what is tragic here is the court has yet again rewritten in order to weaken a statute that stands as a monument to america s greatness. since roberts has been on the bench the court has eviscerated federal preclearance and gutted the intent test which prohibited states from voting practices with racist intent. nearly all of the pillars of the voting rights act have been defanged leaving the country closer to the jim crow past than the civil rights era. according to vox the rulings endorse phantom fears about voter fraud and it permits