When I was young, I sat on a college admissions committee. There are more than 3,000 colleges and universities in America. I would guess that about 12,000 professors sit on admissions committees today, and nearly every one of them is smarter than John Roberts.
A Republican program has populated the Extreme Court with a four people dumb enough to still be Republicans. And two malicious vacationers, Alito and Thomas. But remember that the stupid do more harm than the malicious.
This week the Extreme Court banished considerations of diversity from the college admissions process. But how will six justices, six dopes, go about policing 12,000 people smarter than John Roberts?
Let's say you serve on an admissions committee, now bound by the Court to ignore diversity in your admissions process.
That already happened in California, and committees are finding ways around it.
You find a stack of student folders on your desk. You open one. The first prospective student is named Noemi Gonzales. She went to grammar school in a part of town called "Little El Salvador." She requires financial aid. No one in her family has ever gone to college. Her father is deceased. She chaired a high school club dedicated to supporting trans-gender rights. She doesn't mention race--that has been forbidden by the Extreme Court.
You pick up a second file, one about a prospective student named Draymond Jefferson. He's from Compton, California, and he led a Black Lives Matter demonstration. And so on.
People on admissions committees can vote any way they want.
When we get bad orders from malicious or stupid crackpots, we should rebel. We can free ourselves, find loopholes, do the right thing.
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