TheWiseOldFart

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart Trump’s stacked Supreme Court is not deciding the relationship between laws and regulations and the Constitution, it is rewriting laws as it strikes down decisions made by legitimate Courts in the past. Affirmative Action was successful. Both minority students from low-income families and our nation’s companies benefitted from the program which created racially balanced institutions of higher education. Many great minds would have been lost if this program had not existed. However this biased and corrupt Court decided to halt all programs related to race-conscience admissions in colleges, declaring them unconstitutional. Apparently, only whites are protected by the Law of the Land. Contrary to Trump and his Court, not all of our most mentally gifted minds are wealthy and pure white. MIT offered statistics after the first new class was selected since the right-wing extremist Court’s decision. [About 5% of MIT’s incoming class of 2028 is Black, a significant drop

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   Times changed, but I was slow to change with them. Until about 15 years ago, I trusted most of our elected officials in Washington , the majority of law enfor c ement, and had unfettered faith the judicial branch of our government. Then everything began to change.   I answered an ad on the internet placed by a Las Vegas based newspaper. I applied and was accepted as a freelance writer.    I have always loved to read, and reporters are required to read a lot. There is little truth on television, and not much more on the internet. However, when you seek the truth, it is available with a little extra effort. Eventually, everything I thought I believed i , now demanded more scrutiny. I became interested in politics at the age of ten. It was natural for me to spend most of my time searching for the truth, which is hard to find in Washington. The more I searched, the more I found disappointment. There are very few elected officials who have principles, integrit