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[EuchreJack]

Welp, some insights into potential future Supreme Court decisions: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=180305.msg8407149#msg8407149

[EuchreJack]

Ethics violations on the Supreme Court across ideology.

https://thehill.com/homenews/4091544-liberal-justices-caught-up-in-supreme-court-ethics-scrutiny/amp/

I suspect we're only at the beginning of this, since finally reporters are deciding to investigate this. It's not exactly new.

[Loud Whispers]

Ethics violations on the Supreme Court across ideology.

https://thehill.com/homenews/4091544-liberal-justices-caught-up-in-supreme-court-ethics-scrutiny/amp/

I suspect we're only at the beginning of this, since finally reporters are deciding to investigate this. It's not exactly new.

Damn. And here when I attended a study meeting with loads of research teams from across Europe the entire UK delegation got kicked out because the UK legal department determined the host hotel was too good for us D;

[EuchreJack]

So, the Education Secretary thinks he can end legacy admissions at Ivy League schools

Somehow, I don't think the Supreme Court is going to agree with him: The justices themselves are products of elite educations. Eight of them attended law school at Harvard or Yale, and six of them have undergraduate degrees from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. And six of them had themselves served as law clerks at the Supreme Court.

[Loud Whispers]

I do like how legacy admissions showcase how society rewards those it is designed to reward, and not reward those based on merit. E.g. it makes financial sense for a top-tier University to admit a mediocre scion of a billionaire because their success is assured no matter how incompetent they are, whereas a top-tier academic student could struggle to ever pierce the heights of averageness no matter how hard they work. Though it is peculiar to see how the same people who say affirmative action is racist defend legacy admission, which was itself designed to "protect" WASP places from Asians, Hispanics, Catholics and Jews

I knew a guy who went to a top tier American university despite failing to get GCSEs; his father funded the building of a new lab, new student accoms and a library expansion. We all joked he must've really sucked if they needed 3 buildings to fit him in

[Great Order]

It makes total sense if you understand laws exist to help the Rich oppress the Poor.

That's not true. The law in its fairness forbids both the rich and poor from begging on trains

That quote came from some rich fuck.  Because poor people benefit more from begging on trains than rich people, and because rich people can beg at dinner parties that poor people can not afford to attend.

It's sort of the point of the original quote:

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread"