Chief Justice John Roberts made a claim in the hearing of oral arguments on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Acts that Massachusetts has the worst African American voter participation in the country. Way off the mark, according to the the state's secretary of state as quoted by the Boston Globe (VIA):| The problem is, Roberts is woefully wrong on those points, according to Massachusetts Secretary of State William F. Galvin, who on Thursday branded Roberts's assertion a slur and made a declaration of his own. 'I'm calling him out,' Galvin said. Galvin was not alone in his view. Academics and Massachusetts politicians said that Roberts appeared to be misguided. A Supreme Court spokeswoman declined to offer supporting evidence of Roberts's view, referring a reporter to the court transcript. On Thursday, Galvin tried to set the record straight. 'We have one of the highest voter registrations in the country,' he said, 'so this whole effort to make a cheap-shot point at Massachusetts is deceptive.' |
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