The Supreme Court of the United States, so carefully molded by the Decider(TM), has now proven to us it has taken a great big leap to the right. Its earlier decision in this session all suggested that this was so but yesterday's incredible decision to essentially overturn precedent and rule that race cannot be used to assign students to schools even when the desire is to increase diversity and decrease racial or ethnic segregation. By the Roberts court standards we must all become colour blind and, by an extension to this logic, all segregation will cease to exist as we become incapable of seeing race at all. The strength and coded contempt that is to be found in the dissenting opinions at least suggests that the struggle will continue. We just have to hope that under no circumstances do any additional justices, other than Scalia or Thomas, retire until the Decider(TM) is unemployed.
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