John Roberts: the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to ignore blatant discrimination on the basis of race

As one part of what as Paul observed earlier was a fresh new day of appalling opinions, the Court today allowed the Trump administration to systematically terminate TPS status for immigrants from Syria and Haiti, despite the administration having made no effort to comply with the statutory procedures and despite clear evidence of impermissible racial bias. As Kagan observes in her dissent for the Union justices, the evidence for discrimination is so blatant that the majority refuses to even quote the damning statements:

Kagan explains how the administration did not follow the statutory procedures, which the Court’s Confederate wing disposes of with a very strained reading of the relevant text, and then turns to the equal protection claim:

The majority being unwilling to cite the statements it claims have a race-neutral explanation speaks for itself. And, of course, the idea that the balance of harms favors the administration is also absurd:

The Supreme Court’s Republicans are exactly as committed to “color-blindness” as the Plessy majority was — that is, they are determined to ignore evidence of racial discrimination no matter how obvious.