This college admissions scam and the Alan Dershowitz expectation of it gaining “Great Scandal” standing with only a very weak supporting cast of Hollywood folk was a puzzlement for me. It turns out there is, under all that democrat detritus, a stench after all.

Because it brought to mind a Clinton administration attack on the U.S. Constitution I recently learned about, I’ll relate that story first. Remember, never let a crisis, even an unknown one, go to waste.

While upsetting to academics, the Fifth Circuit’s 1996 court ruling on Hopwood v Texas found that different admission policies for blacks, whites and browns are unconstitutional.

One angry Clinton bureaucrat, Norma V Cantu, threatened to cut off Federal funds if Texas state universities complied with that law.

Although I am old enough to remember a Clinton axis member’s attack of that magnitude on our liberty, for some reason it’s not familiar. Maybe the media failed to take note of it’s rejection.

Because you may be having the same problem recalling that story here’s a refresher from https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/03/the-office-for-civil-rights-volatile-power/519072/

…When George H. W. Bush took office, it initially looked as if he would continue his predecessor’s neglect of the OCR. The assistant secretary for civil rights position was left empty for over a year, but when Michael L. Williams was confirmed, he set a new tone by meeting with civil-rights groups. He declared that he would use compliance reviews to enforce the law, review policies put in place by the previous administration, make certain the office would be more transparent, and request more funding for the OCR. He had “determined upon [his] arrival that insufficient resources had been devoted to the performance of critical legal, policy, and enforcement activities.”

Williams soon lost the goodwill he earned. At the end of 1990, he declared that scholarships based on race were illegal. He did so without approval from the Bush administration and ignited furor among college administrators and civil-rights groups. Williams’s credibility was lost, and he accomplished little during the rest of his tenure. When Richard Riley, Bill Clinton’s secretary of education, took over the department, he declared that race-exclusive scholarships were legal as long as they were intended to increase diversity or redress past discrimination.

Riley took over an office that had been largely written off by much of the civil-rights community. When Norma V. Cantu, who had been a lawyer for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, became the assistant secretary for civil rights in 1993, she told a reporter, “Staff have told me some stories about how in previous administrations, civil rights had not been dealt with in a serious manner.” She accused her predecessor of leaving the extant cases in a “state of disarray.”

A self-professed and proud “product of affirmative action,” Cantu pushed the office to be more proactive. She was accused, at the time of her appointment, by one conservative opponent of “having a zeal for social engineering.” Under her direction, the OCR undertook more investigations and broadened its scope. Instead of investigating only the schools that were the directs targets of a complaint, the office investigated the whole district and the whole state. Sounding like the critics of the Obama administration, The Weekly Standard complained at the time, “If Congress doesn’t check Norma Cantu’s runaway leftism, it won’t really be fair to complain that she holds herself above the law. Congress will have decided: Ms. Cantu is the law.”…

That sounds mii-tee familiar, dontcha think? Leftist just don’t have an acceptable bone in their body when it comes to recognizing other people rights.

Speaking of rights, back to the stench mentioned early on…

Big Law Dealmaker Charged in the National College Admissions Scandal.

Some key information

Rick Springer’s LinkedIn page alleges he’s a stonemason but the closest connection to Rick Springer, stonemason, I could find after a search was a reference to a mason shown preparing a “springer” stone to cap the center pier.

As for me… a happy ending! Even if it turns out to be a fairy tale.

You have to scroll down even though it says “Cannot connect” otherwise you’ll miss the happy ending.