This was long overdue, and I should have made it per day when the supreme court did these cases. But oh well, it’s all under one megathread. This will be active for a couple of days.
It sure is a great thing that we have such a powerful institution standing up for the sincerely-held bigotry of those poor billionaires and businesses. History books will remember them fondly.
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John Roberts Begs the Liberal Justices to Stop Criticizing the Court
The chief justice doesn’t like his conservative Supreme Court colleagues getting called out for judicial overreach.
Great rulings all around. Lovely day for the country!
Happy 4th of July everybody.
Conservative cowards doing what conservative cowards do best- regress any progress that they fear.
That the court threw out affirmative action on the same day it struck down student loan forgiveness… well, these things are more closely related than you might think.
Up until the Civil Rights acts were passed, state colleges were publicly funded, virtually free to students- higher education was very much seen as a public good- but while segregation was legal college was tacitly only for white people. When segregation was struck down, funding for those colleges was cut and tuition costs were shifted to students- this was explicitly about pricing poor (more to the point, black and brown) people out of colleges now that they couldn’t discriminate on the basis of race.
The high cost your children will pay to go to college was never necessary, it was deliberately done to price minorities out of college
It’s not just about minorities, although it is about that.
This is about keeping the masses out of universities so that only children of the elite can attend and to isolate them from ever interacting with anyone outside their class. Those children are white because our elites are white, of course, but it’s really a one-two punch. The goal is a consolidation of power and privilege, to ensure that anyone who goes to the “right” schools is of the “right” sort.
