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In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Chief Justice authored a decision abandoning the Court’s responsibility to protect against government authority being used to favor specific viewpoints, declaring it a political question beyond judicial reach. In Louisiana v. Callais, he joined a decision dismantling the Voting Rights Act's protections for majority-minority districts, empowering state legislatures to privilege political viewpoint over other factors when drawing districts and jurisdictions. Together, these decisions undermined the political rights of citizens and empowered those currently in elected office to use government authority to entrench themselves and those with preferred political perspectives, despite the will of the electorate. Taken to its logical end, such a system allows a minority to maintain control of the state and federal government even after popular opinion shifts against it.