Yes they fucking do.

The Conservative apparatus around streamlining young Conservative thinkers through the pipeline of elite universities is profound.

These fucks all go to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the like. It's a major part of how they have power, the networking that comes from all this. They do it using deep pocketed donors, legacy admissions, and all kinds of scholarships and Federalist Society-style influence. That's why it is SO important to them to keep anyone who grew up outside of that system -- like a black kid who grew up poor in a city -- WAY the fuck out.

Being a legacy admit tells us that you grew up with all kinds of advantage in your favor to get into the school. You were more likely to have connections, know the bueracratic ins-and-outs, know how to cater your application to what the university likes, etc. . Being legacy means your test scores should almost inherently be treated as less impressive than identical scores from a non-legacy because the non-legacy almost certainly showed more grit and effort to get to the same place.

Which is the same exact logic as how being an underrepresented minority student should almost certainly weight your scores more strongly than someone with identical scores from an over represented social group since it almost certainly took more grit and effort to get to those scores for someone starting from that point of disadvantage. On the same logic that someone who grew up dirt poor and self-studied has shown far more grit than the rich kid who had a team of tutors. The former put blood, sweat, and tears into getting that A. The latter is a loser if he DIDN'T get the A.

And this plays out in reality, which is why affirmative action rules have been shown to increase academic performance of schools that have them. They get better students by pursuing those policies.

All that to say, they should've gone after legacy admits INSTEAD of affirmative action. But they didn't because Students for Fair Admissions was not really concerned with helping Asian kids get into elite universities. They were after affirmative action because Edward Blum is a hardline anti-black neoconservative and works to repeal any laws designed to ensure black representation or participation in the American political system. It's the same people that brought Shelby to the SCOTUS and is still actively trying to strike down the Voting Rights Act.

A good book on this is A People's History of the Supreme Court. People think it had legitimacy because they tend to remember the few good rulings that helped Civil rights (Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade), but a lot of it's decisions have been pretty terrible for the people in the US, from their decisions on slavery, segregation (before Brown), the Bush/Gore election results, every decisions they have made lately, etc.

People don't seem to grasp just how fucked that EPA case, and it's consequences are. Chevron deference is out the window. Defeats the entire purpose of having regulatory agencies staffed by experts in their respective fields.

Which, of course, is their intention. Dismantling the "administrative state." The fact that so many poor and middle class people have been fooled into fervently supporting these ghouls is so fucked up.

they do. It is just that they dont create outrage and clickbait shit for morons and thus dont get pushed on youtube, instagram and tiktok.

The way social media works currently is to push idiotic voices for nasses of idiots than sound reasoning to sound people. Also having a sociologist weighing pro and cons, looking into detailes and nuances and forming a qualified opinion takes much longer and much more brain energy to follow, than some jacked up guy yelling into the camera how the liberals want to turn all white men into black gay trans furries or something.