Supreme Court Goes Three for Three [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 2 July 2023 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Court Strikes Down Racism

In a case brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina by Students for Fair Admissions, the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that using different admission standards for different races is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote "Harvard and UNC admissions programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantee of the 14th Amendment that all persons are entitled to equal protection under the law. Granting special privileges to some based solely on skin color is illegal."

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, writing that "given the history of discrimination against blacks a counterbalancing period of discrimination in favor of blacks is essential to achieving social justice. Though the individual whites and Asians who are disadvantaged by affirmative action's discrimination against them may have played no direct role in the mistreatment of blacks they must, nevertheless, pay the price."

Asians, many of whom were denied basic rights in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States, must score 1350 or more (top 10%) on their Student Scholastic Aptitude (SAT) to be considered for admission to Harvard. Blacks need only score 1100 (top 42%). Asian applicant Calvin Yang had a 1550 (top 1%) SAT score, a grade point average 4.0, and lettered in two varsity sports, but was rejected for admission.

President Biden denounced the Court's decision and labeled the current Court "not normal. For decades the Court has upheld racial discrimination in admissions as a necessary remedy for the hardships faced by blacks in attaining the status conferred by getting a degree from a prestigious university."

MSNBC host Al Sharpton called this Court ruling "a dagger in our backs. Blacks were enslaved for 246 years and discriminated against by Jim Crow laws for 100 years after being freed during the Civil War. Justice requires that this be offset by at least 100 years of discrimination in our favor. Affirmative action in college admissions is just one small down payment on what's owed us."

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) disagreed with both Biden and Sharpton, saying "the elimination of racial discrimination anywhere is a good thing. Slavery was overthrown by good people. Jim Crow was outlawed by good people. One of the remaining major hardships that impedes the opportunities of poor people of all races is the rotten education they receive in too many public schools. Expanding school vouchers will enable these victims to escape being trapped in the under-performing public schools and upgrade their education in private schools that will better prepare them to succeed at universities based on merit without regard to their skin color."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) slammed both the Court and Sen. Scott as "naive. If it hadn't been for affirmative action, a poor young woman of Indian heritage like myself would never have experienced the success I was able to achieve as the first woman of color to attend Harvard Law School. I won't stop fighting for young people with big dreams who deserve an equal chance to pursue their future."

Court Strikes Down President's Debt Forgiveness

The US Supreme Court ruled against President Biden's attempt to forgive $400 billion in student loan debt. Justice Roberts pointed out that "the Constitution does not grant the executive branch the authority to cancel this debt. Only Congress possesses such authority."

Biden called the Court's decision "wrong and hypocritical. We gave businesses $400 billion in pandemic relief payments. Why can't we give kids $400 billion in debt relief? I will stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver this relief."

Former Vice President and current Republican presidential candidate Mike Pence praised the Court and assailed "Biden's massive trillion-dollar student loan bailout" because "it subsidizes the education of elites on the backs of hardworking Americans. With $200 billion of the pandemic relief money having been stolen it cannot serve as a justification for his illegal unilateral raid on the US taxpayers' money."

Court Upholds Freedom of Speech

In another 6-3 ruling, the US Supreme Court overturned a Colorado law that punished Lorie Smith for refusing to design a website promoting same-sex marriages. Justice Neil Gorsuch explained that "the First Amendment envisions the United States as a rich and complex place, where all persons are free to think and speak as they wish, not as the government demands."

In a dissent joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, Justice Sonia Sotomayor complained that "today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class."

Gorsuch challenged the notion that "there should be 'protected classes' who have special rights to coerce others to do their bidding. Ms. Smith is not the only web designer offering these services in Colorado. She has the constitutional right to decline business that conflicts with her own religious beliefs. Those seeking assistance in designing a pro-same sex marriage website have numerous other vendors from which to acquire this assistance. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission does not have a legitimate authority to compel Ms. Smith to provide this assistance."

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[Tell It Right]

When Clarence Thomas dies we'll erect a statue of him.

Years later the Dims will demand it be torn down over his "white supremacism".

[Grampa Dave]

Enjoy this!

[AndyJackson]

Years later the Dims will demand it be torn down over his "white supremacism".

We could start right now by tearing down this memorial to blacks who fought to defend western white privilege and cultural patriarchy in WWII.