Make No Mistake, the Supreme Court Will Kill Affirmative Action

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : It's exactly the same rationale the conservatives used to expand gun rights, deny climate change, and authorize the states to force women to bring pregnancies to term against their will.
53% : The Supreme Court started the process of officially dismantling affirmative action in college admissions on Monday as it heard two cases attacking the policy.
52% : The liberal justices and the lawyers defending the universities -- who included the solicitor general for the United States, Elizabeth Prelogar, who was there primarily to argue that affirmative action was important for the nation's service academies, to ensure a diverse officer core -- argued that the conservative spin on affirmative action was factually untrue.
49% : I say "claims to represent" because the group was actually organized by Ed Blum, a white conservative gadfly backed by well-funded donors who has made it his life's work to end affirmative action.
48% : Blum has failed to take down affirmative action in the past, most recently in 2016 through the vessel of Abigail Fisher, a white woman who sued the University of Texas over its admissions policies.
48% : The lawyers defending affirmative action didn't dodge his question; instead, they gave him answers.
45% : The conservative justices don't have to care about facts, they don't have to care about reality, they don't have to care about the actual application of affirmative action, and they don't have to care about constitutional law, because they have the votes to kill that which they dislike.
44% : But what Norris failed to do was make any kind of connection between these unfair personal ratings and the need to throw out affirmative action policies.
41% : The conservative justice most dedicated to his opposition to affirmative action, facts be damned, was Clarence Thomas.
40% : But the conservative justices were not interested in how affirmative action actually works; they were instead wedded to their narrative that race-conscious admissions are "bad," even though they couldn't muster any evidence about whom it is bad for.
39% : Fisher lost the second of her two Supreme Court cases in 2016, with the court upholding affirmative action by a vote of 4-3, with Anthony Kennedy writing the majority opinion.

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