Supreme Court guts affirmative action, effectively ending race-conscious admissions.
"The Court subverts the constitutional guarantee of equal protection by further entrenching racial inequality in education, the very foundation of our democratic government and pluralistic society," Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote.
Added Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: "With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems." (NPR)
When candidates for the Supreme Court are prioritized NOT by their legal briefings, or actual caseloads, BUT are selected, instead, as candidates due to their political affinities and affiliations, AND supported by men and women not honed into the real hard-core knowledge of governing, but instead govern from the aspect that having enough wealth equates to having enough clout, which translates into POWER to bribe politicians. We the people become the recipients of hacks, shills, and puppets playing a political party line, not for the good of all, but the machinations and selfishness and self-serving for the few.
Be it 50, 40, 30, or 20 years of precedent law, a law which had changed and been challenged to represent the real-life experiences of our society and to become more inclusive and more insightful toward the current real life and more relevant toward the needs of the American citizen, these laws have grown as our future provides a more realistic photo of today. They became foundations for a way forward. BUT when justices are selected not for their merits or education regarding America now but prefer to live in an America then, we have nothing but disregard for the common citizen, but MORE laws for the DONOR CLASS, who do not live their lives in any shape or form as the rest of us. And when we have activist Jurists who seem more and more to be paid to play. The only concepts that win, become fodder for the wealthy, and estranged ideology.
And add to that the fact that lifetime appointees, living in an Ivory Tower, with no consequences, laws of land seem only to be made for the LAND OWNERS!
