Affirmative action dissenters demonstrate hypocrisy in action

Welcome to the circus—or maybe I should say sideshow—in the wake of yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v President and Fellows of Harvard College and the related Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v University of North Carolina et al. What else would you call it when you have carnival barkers in the form of POTUS and certain members of SCOTUS, all trying to stir the masses and discredit the Court for not falling into lockstep with the Left?

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In case you missed it, the Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that “the use of race in college admissions violates the Constitution.” Needless to say, the cries of “FOUL!” sounded fast and furious. Among those cries is the WSJ bemoaning the fact this will make it more difficult for colleges and universities to “maintain racial diversity in their classes.”

Instead of looking at the issues with that statement, especially in light of Chief Justice John Roberts’ statement within the majority decision that “nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise,” let’s take a hard look at the double-standard and, to be honest, hypocrisy in the dissenting opinions by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson.

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