Paul Mirengoff quotes from a Trumpy agency head’s letter — sent to “dear colleagues” — on what is purportedly no longer permitted in admissions decision making.
As ever, Tangerine makes statements flatly contradicted by binding Supreme Court precedents, all directly on point.
But all Mirengoff can muster the courage to intone is that it is an “interesting” open question. In fact Paul, it is a closed question: Tangerine cannot invalidate Supreme Court holdings. But here’s the goof’s formulation, in context:
…It’s an interesting and important question whether the portion of the letter I just highlighted is consistent with the SFFA v. Harvard majority opinion’s discussion of the use of personal essays in the admissions process. The majority stated that “nothing in the opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise” 600 U.S. at 230….
Trump’s statements are… lies. He has no power to legislate by Sharpie.
He needs the Congress — and even this hard right leaning Congress will never pass the statutory language needed, to get at what Trump is attempting.
So Paul should say so.
But he chickened out.
Y A W N.
Out.
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