On MSNBC, Mystal Calls Judge Roberts ‘Biggest Enemy’ of Blacks Since Dred Scott
22nd October 2025
On Sunday’s Velshi show, frequent MSNBC guest Elie Mystal charged that Chief Justice John Roberts is the “biggest enemy towards black people” on the Supreme Court since the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision from1857.
His typically hyperbolic attack on Justice Roberts came during a segment devoted to fretting over the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down legal precedents that for decades have required that oddly shaped congressional districts be drawn to ensure the existence of black-majority districts, mostly filled by black legislators.
Host Ali Velshi suggested that a conservative court ruling would be as bad as taking voting rights back to 1964 as he posed his first question to the race-obsessed justice correspondent for the far-left The Nation magazine.