The Supreme Court Sets Fire to Affirmative Action. John Roberts Won’t Own Up to It

PGA-LIV Headache • “Bidenomics” Strikes • “Vote No but Take Credit” [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Hive logo image]( The Supreme Court Sets Fire to Affirmative Action. John Roberts Won’t Own Up to It Good morning from the Hive newsroom! The Supreme Court set fire to affirmative action in college admissions, with a ruling authored by John Roberts citing the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Notably absent from Roberts’s opinion, Cristian Farias [writes](, is any acknowledgment of the decades of precedent the Supreme Court overruled Thursday—a stealthy move that will only invite more conservative activism around the issue, Farias says. Also in Washington, Democrats are heating up their probe into the PGA Tour’s merger with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, with Oregon senator Ron Wyden [telling]( Tom Kludt that the deal reeks of “sportswashing.” “The Saudis are working to lubricate this deal with blood and oil money,” Wyden says. Plus, Chris Smith [catches]( President Joe Biden making his pitch for “Bidenomics,” a message that will surely be one of the driving forces of his 2024 reelection bid. Thanks for reading. [The Supreme Court Sets Fire to Affirmative Action. John Roberts Won’t Own Up to It]( By [Cristian Farias]( [As the Supreme Court did with abortion rights just last year, conservative justices have once again scrapped decades of precedent—a decision Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writes is “unmoored from critical real-life circumstances.”]( [Read more button](   [The PGA-LIV Deal Looks Headed for a Political Buzz Saw: “It’s Textbook Sportswashing”]( By [Tom Kludt]( [The PGA Tour’s merger with Saudi-backed LIV has provoked Democrats’ ire. “I think they’ve got a lot of questions to answer,” Senator Ron Wyden, who has launched a probe into the PGA deal, tells Vanity Fair. “The investigation hasn’t reached the clubhouse.”]( [Read more button](   [Can President Joe Biden Sell “Bidenomics”?]( By [Chris Smith]( [“Most voters tune out the job-creation numbers,” a top Biden adviser says, but the president is betting on his economic record to paint a big contrast with his Republican counterparts in 2024.]( [Read more button](   [Republicans Are Back to the Ol’ “Have Their Cake and Vote Against It Too”]( By [Eric Lutz]( [A number of Republican lawmakers are suddenly giving high praise to Joe Biden’s infrastructure agenda—despite voting against it.]( [Read more button](   [Is Everything More Extreme in California?]( By [Brian Stelter]( [On the newest episode of Inside the Hive, KQED correspondent Marisa Lagos joins Vanity Fair’s Brian Stelter and Joe Hagan to discuss the Golden State. “We are microcosm of this nation,” she argues. “You can really find everything you want to talk about in America here.”]( [Read more button](   Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. [Sign Up Now](   [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn](   This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe](newsletter=vf) Sent from Condé Nast, 1 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 Copyright © 2023 Condé Nast