And depending on how tightly focused the opinion is, the justices’ decision could have an impact far outside of higher education. If five of the six conservative judges stick together on this, it could be the end of colleges using race as a factor in admission. Harvard College) suggests that the private college’s use of race as a factor in admissions violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The other ( Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina) alleges that affirmative action policies violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. One case ( Students for Fair Admissions v. The two cases offer different points of attack. This is an issue that has been going back and forth on the Supreme Court over the last five decades, but conservatives are hopeful that the pair of cases currently before the justices will finally put the nail in the coffin of affirmative action. But even if they do, it’s only a matter of time - possibly mere hours, but, at most, days - until big rulings crash down with the potential to remake both American life and the contours of the political battlefield. True, the Court could kick the can down the road and give itself another week or two that is not without precedent. There are two days left before the Supreme Court is scheduled to take its summer recess: today and tomorrow. THE COMING SCOTUS DELUGE - For weeks, we’ve been waiting for the Supreme Court to finally announce its opinions in a number of major cases. It was going to be his 2020 defeat, then it would surely be his conduct in the aftermath of the election and, okay this is really it, it has to be his role propelling lackluster candidates in last year’s midterms.” In summation: “It’s forever somebody else or some other intervention that will finally break the party from its Trump spell.
It’s a mix of born-again Never Trumpers, those vowing to oppose him in the general election Maybe Trumpers, those who would in fact like to beat him but don’t want to imperil their future viability within the system and those clearly open for business with Trump, whether to secure a future appointment or because the wait is shorter to run again in 2028.” 3: “The non-Trump Republican field today is a picture of the party’s fragmentation. at Gettysburg in 1863, and the Confederates have yet to be repelled.” Their posture reminds me of the WILLIAM FAULKNER line … about how Southern boys are forever fantasizing it’s not yet 2 p.m. 2: In the Senate, “Republicans are sticking with their long-running strategy: wishing Trump would go away. 1: “Speaker KEVIN McCARTHY’s response to TRUMP inviting three-dozen felonies? No, not an opening to break with someone who could be staring at prison time as the party’s nominee.” Heading into the 2024 election, there’s a “more consequential storyline,” JMart writes (from Berlin!) in a must-read new column: “not the strength of the populist right, but the weakness of the center-right.”
THE CENTRAL 2024 STORYLINE ON THE RIGHT - The story of the 2016 election was the rise of right-wing populism and a demographic realignment that reshaped politics.
population is under air quality alerts, covering more than a dozen states from the Midwest to the East Coast” … Fox Weather : “Texas sets all-time power demand records as historic heat wave drags on” THE NEW NORMAL? - WaPo : “Much of the United States felt like a blazing inferno on Wednesday, as record heat attacked the South like a blowtorch” … CNN : “More than third of the U.S. Conservatives are hopeful that the pair of cases currently before the justices will finally put the nail in the coffin of affirmative action.
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