SCOTUS Dumps Affirmative Action!

Another unpopular decision.

In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the culture wars and white nationalists. It once again ruled in a decision that many Americans disapprove of.

Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have supported removal of affirmative action.

Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor opposed the decision.

President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) reacted to the Court's decision.

Republicans are praising it as a step in the right direction.

Democrats are slamming it as a decision that affects generations and it will advocate racial discrimination and white majority rule once again.

I blame the leftists who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. Their fixation of claims that the primaries were stolen and Bernie Sanders was robbed was a total joke. His extreme views and his acylates are responsible as well. The far right built this coalition of hate for years. They managed to win in 2016 with a former reality television star who had no political experience. He kept his word.

Washed Up 45 in his single term managed to get three Supreme Court nominees through and a generation of historical accomplishments rolled back.

On Thursday, the Court ruled that the universities violated the Fourteenth Amendment. It struck down policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. The colleges gave preferences to some applicants based on their race.

So this decision not only affects colleges, scholarships, but workplaces and hiring. The companies can literally hire mostly white workers or conservatives if they choose to do so.

"Many universities have for too long wrongly concluded that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not the challenges best, skills built, or lessons learned, but the color of their skin," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court's majority.

The Supreme Court also ruled on Thursday siding with an evangelical Christian worker who was denied requests to take Sundays off from his post office job to observe his Sabbath in a narrower ruling than some religious freedom advocates sought.

While the court did not overrule a precedent that set when employers must make accommodations for religious employees, it did "explain the contours" of that decision in way that may be more beneficial to employees.

The ruling in one of the most closely watched religious cases this term and was one of two major decisions− the court struck down affirmative action policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina − announced by the Supreme Court on Thursday as a historic term moves to its end.

These assholes roll back historic progress.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion for a unanimous court. The decision sends the case back to lower courts.

At the center of the case is Gerald Groff, a former U.S. Postal Service employee who wanted to take Sundays off for church and rest. That presented a scheduling conflict – and a burden on his colleagues, the government argued – after the Postal Service started delivering Amazon packages on Sundays.

Groff’s attorneys had asked the Supreme Court to toss out a 1977 precedent that made it easier for some companies to deny such requests. The earlier case said that businesses could avoid meeting religious requests if the cost of doing so would be more than a "de minimis," or trivial, amount.

"An employer must show that the burden of granting an accommodation would result in substantial increased costs in relation to the conduct of its particular business," Alito wrote.

The decision could affect other situations where religion and workplace rules conflict, such as for religious dress. Some worried the case could also affect religious conduct at work, giving employees more leeway to exercise their personal views even if they were inconsistent with those held by their employers or colleagues.

Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel and Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday in Groff v. DeJoy to uphold meaningful religious accommodations in the workplace for employees of all faiths:"Federal law protects employees' ability to live and work according to their religious beliefs," said John Bursch, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom. "Employers must provide reasonable accommodations for employees’ religious practice unless doing so imposes undue hardships on their operations. For too long, that duty had been erased by a misguided court ruling."

Rachel Laser, president of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, noted the court clarified its standard rather than overturning it.

“We’re facing an aggressive movement working to weaponize religious freedom, but religious freedom must never be a license to harm others, and that remains true in the workplace," she said.