Why is the Supreme Court balking on the Harvard affirmative action case? It’s a bad case if you want to get rid of affirmative action. At least ethically and logically. Racists can get rid of it for any reason they want. But we’re talking about the black robes of SCOTUS here.
Like many of you, I have been waiting for the Supreme Court to make its decision on whether to hear the case lodged by Asian Americans to end affirmative action at Harvard.
The court didn’t come out last week. And this week, again, the conservative court stalled. It wants the US acting solicitor general to file a brief. It wants to hear the Biden administration’s view? They should know that perspective instinctively. It sure isn’t Trump’s white male grievance view. It’s likely to be no different from the Justice Department’s view on the Yale case which supported affirmative action.
But this means we are in for another indeterminate delay.
The problem is the case is not what you think, and that’s the most ugly thing about this case.
The plaintiffs, Asian Americans rejected from Harvard, are essentially being used as white proxies by right-wing legal activists like Edward Blum, who’ve made fighting affirmative action cases their hill to die on.
That’s the bald truth of this politically charged case. And maybe the court realizes, it just isn’t the right case to reconsider the use of race in all of college admissions.
