Just when you thought the Supreme Court, with its Tuesday decision rejecting the dangerous "Independent State Legislature" theory, was stepping back from the brink, the majority showed us that the brink moves back with it at least when the brink is discrimination or sensible efforts to remedy past discrimination.
With Friday's 6-3 extremist majority decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis and Thursday's in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. v. President & Fellows of Harvard College, the Supreme Court has us traveling backwards decades and more in its time machine of law. What's more, there emerges a visible link between a Court majority seeking the straight White hope of yesteryear, and the recent disclosures about justices treated by billionaires to Alaskan fishing trips and private yacht adventures to Indonesia.
