Those few born “booted and spurred” to ride the backs of their inferiors (in that great phrase Jefferson stole from a Scottish patriot who said it before his execution) have always abhorred the tyranny of the majority. In recent times their well-paid political wordsmiths came up with the wonderfully arch “majoritarian tyranny”. You can’t have 98% of people deciding for everybody else.

John Roberts, Federalist Society member and dedicated corporatist (in private practice he was the genius who came up with the arbitration clause — severely limiting the legal rights of those harmed by corporations — that is now in virtually every contract corporations make with buyers) is a steadfast defender of anti-majoritarianism. Here’s one example, from the balls and strikes umpire’s tenure as chief justice of the only court in the world without an enforceable code of ethics:

In striking down enforcement of the Voting Rights Act (based on a demonstrable lie, but that’s for another time) the 5-4 Federalist Society conservative-libertarian majority overruled overwhelming bipartisan support, eh, majoritarian tyranny.

How overwhelming?

Reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, after massive deliberation and debate, passed 390-33 in the House.  The vote on the Senate, after a similarly rigorous process, was 98-0.  Republican president George W. Bush made a speech praising the importance of the Voting Rights Act to our democracy as he signed the reauthorization into law.  

Roberts, with Scalia (first faculty advisor to the Federalist Society), Thomas (most corrupt Supreme Court member in history, whose strong, independent wife was paid on the down low by the paymaster of the Federalist Society), Alito (whose strong, independent wife forced him to fly flags supporting the Trump insurrection), and Anthony Kennedy (who’d later retire in a deal allowing his former clerk Kavanaugh to take his place) made up the one vote majority that overruled the democratic will of majoritarian tyrants.

Sic semper tyrannis, motherfuckers.