Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of 'Systemic Racism' in AmericaJosh Hammer
Jun 30, 2023
On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate as a "tax" in order to salvage President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something the Left has been clamoring to abolish ever since the 2020 death of George Floyd and the subsequent "Great Awokening" that rocked the republic: "systemic racism" in America.
Oh, that wasn't the way Thursday's huge news was framed by MSNBC talking heads and New York Times editorialists? Curious that.
It is true that the corporate media headlines emanating from Thursday's consolidated opinion in this term's twin affirmative action cases, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College and SFFA v. the University of North Carolina, would have you believe that the Court did something closely approximating the opposite of ending so-called "systemic racism" in America. Those wokesters, "identity politics" enthusiasts, Ibram X. Kendi-esque "anti-racism" proponents, Al Sharpton-style race hustlers, and the addlebrained president of the United States himself would all instead have us believe that a far-right, reactionary cabal of jurisprudential troglodytes on the High Court "set us back" on the issue of race. According to this popular narrative, the SFFA opinion is positively nightmarish; John Roberts might as well be a reincarnation of Roger Taney.
The fact that such a narrative exists -- indeed, that it is so popular -- says a great deal about the woeful state of intellectual honesty and, indeed, basic ethical decency on the American Left. (That very much includes the two vociferous dissenters in SFFA, Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson.)
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https://townhall.com/columnists/joshhammer/2023/06/30/supreme-court-ends-the-last-vestige-of-systemic-racism-in-america-n2625166