BeeLine: Supreme Thoughts

Leftist Democrats melted down after the recent Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action and student debt cancellation.

For example, Biden Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated that the Supreme Court took away important constitutional rights in the affirmative action case.

Source: https://www.foxnews.com/media/karine-jean-pierre-accuses-scotus-of-taking-away-important-constitutional-rights-in-affirmative-action-case

I am not sure what rights she is talking about.

Is there a right to be admitted to a college in which you have inferior academic credentials compared to other applicants?

In particular, does one minority group (African-American) have greater rights under the Constitution than another minority group (Asians)?

She infers that the American people are unhappy with the decision and with the Supreme Court in general which the Left is trying to characterize as controlled by an out of touch group of right wing extremists justices appointed by Republican Presidents/

"This is really, really important and I know the American people are really tracking this, as they should be."

However, recent polling suggests that the Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action is supported by every major demographic group in the United States.

That includes Blacks and Hispanics who are supposed to be the prime beneficiaries of affirmative action policies.

Do you approve or disapprove of the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action?

Whites-- 65% approve/23% disapprove

Hispanics-- 45%/30%

Blacks-- 43%/36%

Male--62%/27%

Female--56%/26%

Age 18-29--49%/26%

Age 65+--65%/29%

Urban voters--51%/30%

Suburban voters--59%/30%

Rural voters--65%/20%

<$50k income--58%/23%

>$100k income--55%/38%

The only demographic groups overall that disapproved of the decision were liberals and Biden voters in 2020.

Liberals--26%/60%

Moderates--56%/23%

Conservatives--90%/5%

Biden 2020 voters--32%/56%

Trump 2020 voters--89%/3%

Source: https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/kpnwbn3sup/econTabReport.pdf#page46

I think this again shows that there is a wide gap between the America Biden and the Democrats want, compared to the views the majority of Americans have on issues like this.

The narrative that the Supreme Court is out of touch and the justices are disconnected from each other on major issues of law is also belied by the facts.

Many Democrats are using this narrative to support a view that the Supreme Court should increase the number of justices or be reformed in some way (term limits, age limits, etc).

For example, Joe Biden criticized the Supreme Court last week by saying it was "not a normal court".

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/29/joe-biden-affirmative-action-supreme-court-reaction#:~:text=Joe%20Biden%20slammed%20the%20US,student%20diversity%20in%20higher%20education.

Not normal in that it is not finding "rights" in the Constitution that simply do not exist except in the minds of a liberal jurists?

However, in the Supreme Court term that just ended, 50% of all its decisions were actually unanimous.

89% of the cases had at least one liberal justice in the majority.

Only 8% of the decided cases were 6-3 decisions along ideological lines.

That simply does not look like a Court that is off the rails in any way.

As to the argument that this Supreme Court is somehow throwing out precedent and the principle of stare decisis...

Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stare_decisis

The data actually shows that the Roberts court has followed precedent at a much higher rate than what the experience has generally been in the past 80 years with the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court...one more example that the narrative and rhetoric of the Democrats is not supported by real facts.

However, that will not stop the Democrats from repeating the narrative over and over.

It is no different with the Biden's administration's current massive messaging effort promoting "Bidenomics" that I wrote about recently.

Facts mean nothing.

The message is all that matters to them.

On the economy. Affirmative action. Or the Supreme Court.

They want voters to trust the message rather than the facts.

If you doubt that consider this excerpt from an Associated Press article on why Biden and his surrogates have coined the phrase "Bidenomics" and have been repeating it over and over in the last week.