30 June—The United States Supreme Court has done pretty damn well so far this term. (I say “so far” because, even though decisions may be announced earlier, the SCOTUS term technically extends from the first Monday in October until the first Monday in October of the next year.)

My thumbs-up assessment is confirmed, inter alia, by the negative reception SCOTUS’s effective and about-time nullification of affirmative action in college admissions has received from complacent college administrators and pandering politicians. They all blather on about the death of diversity and other predictable poppycock and vow to do everything they can—within the newly minted SCOTUS guidelines, of course—to maintain racial diversity and equity and whatever else is considered woke.

Yale president Peter Salovey, after going on about how great higher education and diversity are, lamented that he’s “deeply troubled” and that the Supremes “have done the nation a disservice.” Connecticut governor Ned Lamont, a Harvard and Yale alumnus, complained that the ruling against affirmative action “takes our country backward by upending the hard work that has gone into removing barriers to educational advancement.”

Funny that none of the narrow-minded self-serving wokesters seem concerned that affirmative action actually moved rather than removed barriers to educational advancement and is really racism gone wild. Oh, but it’s a given that racism in the name of diversity and equity—woke racism, in other words—is not only acceptable, but desirable.

I’ve held the presses, this morning. So to speak. This just in, 10:20 Friday: SCOTUS, as expected, ruled that Colorado can’t require an evangelical Christian web designer to provide same-sex wedding websites in violation of her conscience. Leaving aside the fact that religion is taken far too seriously by individuals, politicians, and courts, it’s a proper and desirable ruling simply because a person should be allowed to decide whom to do business with, for whatever reasons, ridiculous as some reasons may be. (And, of course, as Chief Justice Roberts opined several years ago, a corporation is a person.)

This just in, too, 10:50 Friday: SCOTUS, again as expected, ruled that President Biden can’t forgive student loans. Again, the ruling is entirely fitting and proper. And necessary. We breathlessly anticipate kvetching from the left on these two decisions.

On the subject of Joe Biden, then, presumably rambling off the cuff yesterday (rather than reading from a plagiarized script), when a reporter asked our affable president if he thought that SCOTUS had gone rogue, he alacritously volunteered, “This is not a normal court.”

What greater compliment could SCOTUS ask for?