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    1 year ago

    But this year, the Court’s 6-3 supermajority continued to deliver. It ended affirmative action in university admissions, which the GOP has wanted to do for fifty years. It invented a new rule, the “major questions” doctrine, out of whole cloth, and used it this week to invalidate President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program – another decades-long dream of “Big Government Is The Problem” conservatives. And it chipped away at LGBTQ equality, ruling that businesses could refuse to offer services to gay people if those services could be considered “speech.”