The Right Reigns Supreme

In just few short days, the ultra-conservative Supreme Court ended affirmative action in colleges, stopped President Biden's student-loan debt plan dead in its tracks (with the New York Post gleefully celebrating the outcome), and allowed creative businesses to deny service to non-heterosexuals.

President Biden is scrambling to find some way to help people with their outstanding college debts while colleges and universities are looking at possible affirmative-action programs without emphasizing race.  Chief Justice Roberts and the other conservative justices cited the need to emphasize the individual rather than a group based on race or ethnicity (remember when I mentioned that philosophy in a previous post?) in the former case and the separation of powers in the latter.  Any student-loan debt plan has to be approved by Congress - a Congress in the deep pockets of creditors who don't give a damn about debtors.

As the ruling protecting the creative speech of folks like Web site designers who don't want to bother with folks they find objectionable?  Well, it is a victory for black Web site designers who are offended by racist symbols.  Now they don't have to create a Web site for a Lynyrd Skynyrd fan club. 

That aside, it shows that elections have consequences and it should fire up the Democrats in 2024.  Yeah, right.  President Biden is still underwater on the issue of the economy - the one issue we materialistic Americans always care about on the first Tuesday after November 1 (and every other day as well), and polls show Donald Trump still very competitive with President Biden and in a position to edge him pout in a couple of swing states.  Because Americans don't care about the Supreme Court even after it's too late.  If they care about about anything else, they care about the deficiencies of the Democratic presidential candidates they reject.

The American people didn't care about the Supreme Court in 2016 when they chose to take a chance on Trump over Hillary Clinton (not that nominating Hillary Clinton for President was a smart thing for Democrats to do) because of her e-mails, allowing Trump to name Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Court.  They didn't care about it in 2004 when they chose George W. Bush over John Kerry because Kerry was a pretentious, windsurfing fop whom no one trusted to keep us safe from al-Qaeda after 9/11, and then we got Roberts and my hometown's Samuel Alito (I'm sure progressives spit on the floor every time they're passing over my hometown in an airliner).  And voters were happy to send Bush's dad to the White House in 1988 when Michael Dukakis was a loser who failed in his one most important job as governor of Massachusetts - making Willie Horton clean up Boston Harbor while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.  And thus we got Clarence Thomas.

As for the most recent consequential election involving the Supreme Court . . . well ,those who want to blame Jill Stein for peeling away voters from Hillary Clinton and insist that Hillary would have gotten Merrick Garland into Justice Antonin Scalia's seat as President and also appointed Ruth Bader GInsburg's replacement forget that some Republican senators, including the sainted John McCain, vowed to block all of Hillary's judicial appointments, including Supreme Court appointments, in a Republican Senate, as the Senate was expected to stay in Republican control as early as October 2016.  Of course, with a stronger Democratic presidential nominee at the top of the ticket, things could have been different . . . 

But hey, it's all good, innit?  Especially when the Court has affirmed that the Constitution is a colorblind document.  Just ignore that clause from the original Constitution legally making the Negro slave three-fifths of a person.  Really.

Democrats and progressives are urging the joining of a battle against the Supreme Court that they have no chance of winning.  "We have to fight back!"  the scream.  "We have to fight back!"  No, guys - you have to fight back.  I've already surrendered.  The Supreme Court has spoken, and there's no way anyone can undo their rulings any time soon.  So when you say you're going to fight . . . 

. . . count me out.