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- 1Roberts court accused of reviving Jim Crow-era discrimination▼Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
An argument is making the rounds that the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Roberts has rolled back civil rights protections that had seemingly consigned Jim Crow-era racial discrimination to history. Critics point to the court's rulings on voting rights and affirmative action as evidence that segregation-era practices are being rehabilitated, reigniting debate over the court's direction on race and the legacy of the civil rights movement.