{"id":1961123,"date":"2023-06-30T05:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-colorblind-constitution-prevails\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T05:18:32","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T09:18:32","slug":"the-colorblind-constitution-prevails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-colorblind-constitution-prevails\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorblind Constitution Triumphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">6<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-colorblind-constitution-prevails%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1961123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Supreme Court&#8217;s Landmark Ruling on College Admissions<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled on the constitutionality of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-survival-guide-for-conservatives-during-the-biden-years\/\" title=\"A Survival Guide for Conservatives During the Biden Years\">racial discrimination<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-scraps-investigation-into-yales-discriminatory-admissions-process\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale\u2019s Discriminatory Admissions Process\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/o-j-simpsons-alma-mater-to-host-panel-discussion-with-founder-of-scandal-plagued-lincoln-project\/\" title=\"O.J. Simpson\u2019s Alma Mater to Host Panel Discussion with Founder of Scandal-Plagued Lincoln Project\">college admissions<\/a> process<\/a>, which over the past five decades had become a defining feature of higher education in this country. The court decided in favor of the Constitution, sanity, and fairness, and eviscerated a regime that sought to remedy the legacy of racism in this country with more of it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>The Meaningful Timing of the Decision<\/h3>\n<p>The timing of the decision is meaningful, coming days before the July 4th holiday: The Court&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\">6-3 ruling<\/a> vindicates the country&#8217;s founding principles and the idea of equal treatment enshrined in the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<h3>The Affirmation of Equal Protection Under the Law<\/h3>\n<p>The most important aspect of the ruling, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, is the affirmation that the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees to all citizens the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lawyers-pa-lawsuit-dismissal-moves-us-closer-to-supreme-court\/\" title=\"Trump Lawyers: PA Lawsuit Dismissal Moves Us Closer to Supreme Court\">equal protection<\/a> of the law, means that the same law applies in the same way to every person\u2014without regard to race. The Court rejected the so-called antisubordination view, which holds that the Fourteenth Amendment forbids only laws that hurt minorities, not those that help them\u2014that is, that different treatment under the same law is permissible in light of historical inequities.<\/p>\n<p>They made clear that the law guarantees equality of opportunity, not outcome. Justice Clarence Thomas, in his concurrence, addressed this point powerfully. Advocates of the 14th Amendment, he wrote, &#8220;explicitly clarified that the equality sought by the law was not one in which all men shall be &#8216;six feet high&#8217;; rather, it strove to ensure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-colorblind-constitution-prevails\/\" title=\"Colorblind Constitution Triumphs\">freedmen enjoy &#8216;equal rights<\/a> before the law&#8217; such that &#8216;each man shall have the right to pursue in his own way life, liberty, and happiness.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Revealing Response of Universities<\/h3>\n<p>For decades, we have heard from college administrators that they only employed a little bit of racial discrimination\u2014in cases of two equally qualified applicants, in borderline cases, and so on. If the data unearthed in the litigation wasn&#8217;t damning enough, the Ivy League&#8217;s collective meltdown over the ruling was itself an embarrassing refutation of those claims. Harvard immediately encouraged applicants to write about their race in their personal essays, while Princeton&#8217;s execrable Christopher Eisgruber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/news\/2023\/06\/29\/president-eisgrubers-statement-supreme-court-affirmative-action-decision\">said<\/a> the Court had &#8220;significantly&#8221; narrowed the school&#8217;s discretion to admit applicants.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>A Victory for Equality, but the Battle Continues<\/h3>\n<p>Those responses demonstrate how rampant and pervasive the discrimination in university admissions has been, and how salutary Thursday&#8217;s verdict might be. Three cheers.<\/p>\n<p>But now comes the hard part. It is clear from the response of President Biden and the many universities that have already spoken out that they plan to use every means at their disposal to circumvent the law and impose a new regime of racial discrimination relying on proxies for race. A new battle begins today, but the forces of equality have won an important victory over the forces of equity\u2014we can enjoy that for a moment, at least.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday on racial discrimination in college admissions, a defining feature of higher education for decades. 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