Then Do a Better Job in Education and Training

The Supreme Court has ruled that considering race in university admissions is unconstitutional and must stop.

What interests me in this is the intrinsically racist rationalization in some of the “briefs” submitted to the Court in support of racist admissions criteria.

Leaders of American business and public institutions warned in friend-of-the-court briefs that a ruling against affirmative action would deprive the nation of leaders who reflect the population’s racial diversity.

No, affirmative action selects on the basis of race and sex and so selects on merit only tertiarily. Its elimination does not at all deprive the nation of leaders who reflect the population’s racial diversity.

If those…objectors…were serious about wanting leaders reflective of our underlying population, they’d push for better education from pre-school on up, better training—internships, apprenticeships, and the like—in high school and work places, and stronger family cohesion. This is how folks get prepared for leadership roles. Dumping folks into roles for which they’re unprepared only sets them up for failure.

And this from the Liberal claque of the Supreme Court:

Society “is not, and has never been, colorblind,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by Justices Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

And it will continue to be exceedingly difficult to become so as long as Leftists and activist judges like Sotomayor and her ilk insist on keeping us divided by race.

Such persons plainly know better, hence my frequent assertion that these persons are themselves racist at core.

The Supreme Court’s ruling can be read here.

Security Clearances for Retired Officials

The Hatch Act is a Federal law that bars active Federal employees from acting in politically partisan fashion from the pulpit of their official positions. President Joe Biden’s (D) Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is frequently cited for violating it.

Stewart Baker, very late of the National Security Agency’s General Counsel, and Michael Ellis, ex-National Security Council Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, want to extend the Hatch Act (presumably with sterner consequences for violation) to retired Federal intelligence community employees.

As part of an effort to depoliticize the intelligence community, lawmakers should extend the Hatch Act’s restrictions to senior intelligence officials who continue to hold security clearances after they’ve left government.

Such an extension of the Hatch Act would be a good step, but it falls far short.

All persons—not just from intel—who leave government employ, or the employment of government suppliers of any sort, whether they leave through retirement or in order to “seek other opportunities,” no longer have the Need to Know that is a Critical Criterion for having a clearance. These folks should have their clearances revoked as of COB of their last day on the job.

[W]hen senior officials enter the private sector, they routinely retain security clearances as a perk….

It’s especially the case that matters pertaining to national security—security clearances, for instance—are far too important to be considered mere perks.