Supreme Court Sluggers Restore Proper Loan Sequence – The American Spectator

The United States Supreme Court and Shohei Ohtani enjoyed great Junes. Ohtanisan, the biggest story in baseball, hit a remarkable 15 home runs in June’s 30 days, punctuating the end of the month with a 493-foot moon shot Friday night in Anaheim. He’s hit 30 dingers at mid-season while also being one of the most effective starting pitchers in the American League. In the history of the Grand Old Game, he’s a category of one.

As TAS readers know, the Supremes connected for some judicial long balls themselves during June, with sensible rulings supporting religious freedom, inconveniencing affirmative action (in plain English: discrimination against whites and Asians), and nixing the student loan cancellation hustle. All this, of course, with the usual liberal suspects dissenting on the basis of non-sequiturs and preposterous scare tactics masquerading as legal arguments.

We’ll have to see what effects these rulings will have, as the Left is so adept at weaseling around laws and judicial rulings they don’t like. The affirmative action ruling, widely celebrated as the end of racial preferences at universities and elsewhere, is likely the one to have little impact on the way things shake out in the day-to-day. The ruling asserts that the 14^th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which make racial discriminationverboten, apply even in the rarified air of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. But the exception the Court allowed for accepting or promoting on the basis of “personal experience” is a loophole big enough to drive a busload of civil rights attorneys through. Look for business as usual on campus and in corporate America.

We can be happy for the Christian Colorado website designer whose faith led her to decline to design wedding sites for same sex marriages, and for the Christian postal worker whose faith prohibits him from working on Sundays. The Court ruled in favor to these two, confirming that the First Amendment as well as the 14^th still applies. But make no mistake: as you read this, various civil rights panels of one stripe or other, and well upholstered leftist attorneys, are ferreting out ways to make Americans of various faiths toe the liberal line, though the heavens fall. Don’t bet against them.

The ruling that stands the best chance of sticking would appear to be ruling against Joe Biden’s brazen attempt to lavish almost a half a trillion federal dollars on one of the most reliable Democrat constituencies — universities and their workers bees — without so much as a by-your-leave to Congress. This was a brazen scam from the start, so obviously unconstitutional that even Nancy Pelosi recognized it. Chief Justice John Roberts even quoted her judicial wisdom in last week’s ruling. Far from happy that the court followed her sage advice, Nancy is now in a twist that “the Republican supermajority on the Supreme Court cruelly denied more than 40 million Americans deeply needed student debt relief.”

For centuries the sequence in the important matter of borrowing money has gone in this wise:

1. Borrow the money.
2. Use the money.
3. Pay the money back.

Until last week’s ruling, under the most bat guano leftist Democrat administration in our history, the sequence had been amended to the following:

1. Borrow the money.
2. Use the money.
3. Vote the straight Democrat ticket.
4. Watch some other poor sods pay the money back for you.

We can hope the proper sequence, the one that has always applied to hard-working and honest Americanos, will remain in place. Though we may be sure the Democrat vote buying machine never rests. So we have to wait a bit to see if Buffy and Skylar ever do pay for their degrees in vegetarian studies. Hurrah for the Court for trying to make them do so instead of putting the burden on me and my plumber.