Peter has hit the nail on the head. The Court’s recent decisions show undue deference for the feeble notion that “diversity” produces miraculous educational results. It was too bad that the Court uncritically accepted the University of Michigan’s assertion that it would lose out on important benefits if it were not allowed to make the student body “look like America” in 2003 and too bad that the current Court is willing to ground constitutional law in this bit of leftist wishful thinking.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Abigail Thernstrom calls last week’s decision “Supreme Gibberish.”

That’s putting it charitably.