They bloody well know that the Bakke decision was a blow struck against the deep systemic racism in this country and that they had the long-awaited opportunity to plunge the dagger into the heart of Affirmative Action. That's been a right-wing fever dream since 1978 at least, perhaps even since 1963.

Equal Protection Clause, my ass. It's not about protecting the "equal" rights of white people, it's all about ensuring the continuity of the privileges and advantages white people have in American society simply because they're white. In other words, it's about perpetuating systemic racism.

JV writes, "Today’s decision is about politics, not principle." I'd note that we can draw a clear, straight line from the ideology driving the politics and this decision back to John C. Calhoun of South Carolina in the 1840s and 1850s. Simply put, it's permanent oligarchic white supremacy.

Today's SCOTUS majority unambiguously reaffirmed that they have no interest in legal principle and are but mere ideologues eager to impose their far-right views and drag this country back to a time when women and non-white people had no voice and rich white men controlled everything.