The US Supreme Court this week ruled that race-based university admissions are unconstitutional and a violation of equality under the law . Scott Baugh, the Republican front-runner for Orange County’s 47th Congressional District, called out his usually-vocal Democratic opponents for their silence on the landmark decision.
“It has been more than 24 hours since the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling ending race-based admissions at colleges and universities, and we have heard crickets from my two Democratic opponents,” said Scott Baugh (R-CA47). “Dave Min and Joanna Weiss regularly comment on Supreme Court rulings. Why the silence? Where do they stand? Our district is home to a major university and other colleges and voters here deserve to know where candidates stand on this important issue.”
There a number of colleges and universities in CA47 – including U.C. Irvine, Vanguard University, Concordia University, Irvine Valley College, Golden West College, Orange Coast College.
State Senator Dave Min was a law professor at UCI, and comments prolifically on policy and politics on social media – including regular broadsides aimed the what he calls the “corrupt” and “radical” US Supreme Court. In the past few days, Min blasted SCOTUS rulings striking down President Biden’s student debt cancellation and upholding constitutional protections for religious freedom.
Joanna Weiss also attacked the high court’s ruling against the Biden Administration’s student debt cancellation scheme, and praised its ruling in a case involving the so-called “independent legislature theory”:
Both Min and Weiss have been conspicuously silent on the SCOTUS ruling that race-based college admissions are unconstitutional.
Race-based admissions in higher learning are unpopular among a key voter demographic in CA47: Asian-Americans, whose high-achieving children are disparately impacted by the practice.
California voters have consistently supported the ideal of color-blind admissions.
Baugh, a conservative Republican and former Assembly GOP leader, has effusively praised the high court’s ruling:
“The court’s decisions bring our nation one step closer to achieving the dream of Rev. Martin Luther King that we will one day be a nation where people are judged on their character and not the color of their skin,” said Baugh. “Asian-Americans, in particular, have proven to be victims of these unconstitutional race-based admissions and that will end as of today.”
