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This week, the stated the Supreme Court positive action unconstitutional in college admissions, killed Biden’s student debt restructuring plan, and allowed a graphic designer in Colorado to refuse service to same-sex couples. Naturally, charged twice former President Donald Trump wasted no time taking credit for all of this in his speech at a summit Mothers for freedom — a right-wing, anti-government group — on Friday.
“Many presidents never get the chance to appoint a Supreme Court Justice. I had three. They’re gold,” he boasted to the crowd that had gathered in Philadelphia that night, referring to Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. “Maybe we’ll get three or four more. Can you imagine?.. Let’s take seven or eight or maybe even nine.”
While Trump continued to wail against the pending criminal cases to him, while also voicing his grievances about immigration and the media, the ex-president pledged to implement a series of dangerous education policies that would target vulnerable youth and marginalized communities.
He called for more incarceration of students and pledged to “completely overhaul federal standards of school discipline and juvenile justice to get violent monsters out of your kids’ classrooms and into reform schools or correctional facilities.” Such reform schools and institutions in thetroubled teen industry,” which generates billions of dollars annuallyhave been criticized for the countless reports by psychological and physical abuse of young people.
Trump also promised to cut funding for schools that teach students about race and gender.
“On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school that promotes critical race theories, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content on our children,” said the former president, who also pledged to prohibit federal agencies from promoting gender-affirmative care for people of any age.
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Although Trump has spent the past few months attack personally Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as he competes for the presidential nomination both joined other 2024 hopefuls in praise the devastating Supreme Court decisions that have and will ultimately harm countless people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, and low-income Americans.
On Thursday, following the Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action, Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman to serve on the court, called on her conservative colleagues in a destructive disagreements. “With let-them-eat-cake-cake ignorance, the majority today are pulling the string and announcing ‘colorblindness for all’ through a legal fiat,” she wrote. “But making race irrelevant in the law doesn’t make it so in life. And because the Court has so detached itself from the real past and present experience of this country, the Court has now been tempted to interfere in the crucial work that UNC and other higher education institutions are doing to address America’s real problems. to solve.
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