[tomder55]

Significant win for Clueless' immigration policy. 8-1 SCOTUS decided that states do NOT have standing to challenged Clueless Joe's non-enforcement of the immigration laws. So much for the MAGA conservative court. Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion.

Only Alito dissented

More opinions to follow

[tomder55]

Still waiting for the big decision. Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina
will determine the fate of affirmative action.

[jlisenbe]

Issues: (1) Whether the Supreme Court should overrule Grutter v. Bollinger and hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions; and (2) whether Harvard College is violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by penalizing Asian American applicants, engaging in racial balancing, overemphasizing race and rejecting workable race-neutral alternatives.

Interesting how liberals have gone from advocating for a racially neutral approach to now being practitioners of racist policies.

[tomder55]

SCOTUS overturned Affrimative Action admission requirements for colleges.

Chief Justice Roberts wrote universities “have concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual’s identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice.”


Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion, wrote hat the decision “sees the universities’ admissions policies for what they are: rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in their entering classes.”

Clueless right on cue smeared the court . He said this is not a normal court. Right . It is a court that is generally making calls based on the Constitutional rule of law.
He went on to say that this court goes out of it's way to overturn precedents . Well yeah sometimes precedents is the wrong decision. Brown v Board of Education is an example when the court overturned bad precedent. Precedent only has weight if it was the correct call to begin with .

[tomder55]

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules ... that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today,”

Thomas Sowell.

[jlisenbe]

6-3 decision in order to affirm what should be blindingly obvious. The only way a college can give a preference to a person on the basis of his/her race is to actively discriminate against people of other races, and such racial discrimination should be illegal.

[tomder55]

Race should not be a factor. There are other ways to address socio-economic disparities . But this country is obsessed with diversity inclusion equity . None of those bring us closer to that color blind nation MLK envisioned .

[tomder55]

Heavy on the debate agenda this cycle will be America's education system. This vote by itself guaranteed it . But many other education related issues have emerged .And if DeSantis is the Repub nominee ;'woke' in education could become the dominant issue.

He called for the abolishment of the Dept of Education and has sued the agency.

DeSantis Says He Would Abolish 4 Federal Agencies as President, Including Education Department and IRS (yahoo.com)

DeSantis sues Biden administration over university accrediting system | AP News

Will this vote galvanize the Dem base like the overturning of Roe did ?

Covid restrictions on education will be a topic

CRT ;and schools rolls in the transformer movement will be front and center ....transformers competing as women ;their access to women's lockers ....sex ed in schools .... restricting kids access to porn disguised as appropriate educational text .

The administration's attacks on parents concerned about their children's education

[tomder55]

Who knows ? Once a more sober look at the decision is made by more responsible people than the real problems of K-12 failed schools and teachers ;especially in urban schools ,can begin to be addressed . College admission is one issue. The primary education problems is a much bigger one.

[jlisenbe]

socio-economic disparities

That's quite an area for discussion.

[tomder55]

Start with the basics . As mentioned they do not start in college entry .Early childhood education has to be addressed first.

The libs will say it is a distribution issue. I say it is a choice issue. I'll also say that we should be making more of an effort for businesses underwriting and sponsoring these initiatives . Wherever possible remove it from the public sector.

[jlisenbe]

Their greatest need is to be raised in a healthy family. In that regard, the business of out of wedlock births should be firmly discouraged and two-parent families encouraged and honored. The best early childhood education is from a mom and dad.

[tomder55]

Candace Owens on Twitter: "Imagine if the NBA declined Lebron James because there were “too many black people in the NBA” and they wanted racial diversity—so they instead allowed Ed Sheeran onto the Lakers in his place. That is exactly what Asian-Americans have been enduring for decades at Harvard." / Twitter






'303 Creative LLC v. Elenis' decision in

6-3 decision ;Colorado cannot use an anti-discrimination law to force a website designer to create a website for a gay marriage. If I was gay I would not be patronizing that business .Is that too hard to comprehend ?

[jlisenbe]

These last two SCOTUS decisions were important victories. Colleges cannot engage in racial discrimination, and businesses cannot be forced to endorse messages with which they disagree.

[tomder55]

Groff v. DeJoy, 9-0


USPS is now required to make accommodations for an evangelical Christian mail carrier who refused to work on Sundays. When Gerald Groff began working for USPS, Sunday shifts weren’t part of the job. But that changed when USPS signed a deal to deliver Amazon parcels. He refused to do Sunday work . He resigned after being disciplined. ;then he sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which requires that employers “reasonably accommodate . . . an employee’s or prospective employee’s religious observance or practice”

It was a straightforward decision that all justices agreed with.​

[jlisenbe]

Not sure how I feel about that one. I can see it from both directions.

[tomder55]

SCOTUS struck down Clueless Joe's student loan plan. Having spent most of his career in the Senate ,he should know that a $ 400 billion +++ spending plan cannot be constitutionally initiated by EO from the White House.

[jlisenbe]

Yep. That was a great decision. How they found three justices to dissent is the big question.

[tomder55]

Roberts wrote

"As then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi explained: 'People think that the President of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress,'"

BAM !!

It’s important to note that from an accounting perspective today’s ruling will reduce the 2023 deficit by about $400 billion, just as the announcement increased the 2022 deficit by that amount. This accounting convention may mask the recent rise in structural deficits but does not much change the grim realities of our fiscal trajectory.

CRFB Reaction to Supreme Court Student Debt Cancellation Ruling | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

[tomder55]

lol the emperor and Madame Defarge were seen hob nobbing on a yacht and dining with Tom Hanks on a Greek Island

Barack Obama and Tom Hanks enjoy lavish Greece holiday together with their families | Daily Mail Online

This was right after she raged about the SCOTUS Affirmative action decision.




The emperor was a little more balanced ..

Barack Obama on Twitter: "Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table. In the…" / Twitter