The decision neutering the Voting Rights Act proved that Roberts' every effort to sooth the public about prior elections cases was disingenuous. As a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, Chief Justice John Roberts fought tooth and nail to oppose the 1982 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, which amended the law by requiring courts to look at the discriminatory results of a district map or election law and not just the discriminatory intent. He lost that battle as the reauthorization