The right-wing gang of six justices on the Supreme Court just ruled that affirmative action in university admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violates the Constitution. Do not be fooled. This ruling is not limited to the elite
universities that seek to ensure diversity in their student bodies. It is not limited to education. The right-wing majority on the Court is escalating the war on the Reconstruction that was launched by the civil rights movement.
The Court ruled that race is a suspect category even when used to remedy discrimination.
This ruling will be invoked to reverse efforts to guarantee equal employment opportunities, to provide opportunities for minority contractors, to counter discriminatory housing restrictions, and to challenge hate crimes motivated by race. With this ruling, the Court declares that it is not only blind to the systemic racism that still scars this nation; but hostile to efforts to remedy that racism, arguing that they offend the Constitution. As Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote in her blistering dissent, “This is a tragedy for us all.”
The decision of the gang of six, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, is only part of the Court’s assault on equal rights under the law. Roberts also penned the court decision in Shelby County v. Holder that gutted the Voting Rights Act — and has opened the gates to racially discriminatory election measures in dozens of states.
The right-wing justices are not acting alone. Across the country, an increasingly extremist Republican Party has made race-bait politics a centerpiece of its agenda. In Florida, for example, Gov. Ron DeSantis, now a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, has outlawed teaching the truth about America’s history of slavery. He has banned any diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. He is waging war on what he calls “woke” corporations that seek to defend equal rights under the law.
African Americans and Latinos are not the only tar- gets. The Civil Rights Reconstruction helped lay the groundwork for the expansion of rights for women, the LGBTQ community, the disabled, and the young. It is not accidental that the reactionary court majority now moves to overturn established law by terminating the right to abortion — and women’s control , …
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