The Constitution is the bedrock of our society.  The Democrats try to build a platform on a foundation of sand.  Forgiving student debt created a coalition of wishful thinkers who were surprised the idea had wings.  False promises finally collapsed under the weight of logic.  Affirmative action was a flawed idea to begin with.  As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated that he hoped that his children would be judged by their character and not the color of their skin.  Hope built on sand will collapse.  Hope built on bedrock will last.

Donald Houghton

Quincy

I suppose if I were 40 years younger and had borrowed to pay for college I would be a proponent of cancelling student debt. Heck, why not ? But if I had to write a logical reason why my debt should be cancelled I would have a difficult time coming up with one.  I do feel bad for today’s graduates however. Three years of COVID mayhem, two years of a supply chain crisis, a war in Ukraine siphoning off billions in US aid and, of course, the current Democrat administration ushering in an inflation not seen in over 50 years. The next Republican candidate for president should announce he or she is in favor of adding another 5 years to the payback length. Heck, these 20- and 30-somethings are looking at their grocery bills a little more closely these days.

Jack Zaccardi

East Boston

Good for the Supreme Court again erasing a travesty in judicial activism from our past. Last year it was pointing out the demonstrably true fact that there is no federal right to aborting babies in the U.S. Constitution, and this year it was ruling that any racism – regardless of the ostensibly altruistic motives behind it – is unconstitutional.

Now let’s hope this court hears arguments and strikes down the last remaining – and most offensive – vestige of left-wing, radical judicial activism, the absolutely appalling 1995 ruling in U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton.  This is a ruling in an Arkansas case that used illegitimate federal power to ban the right of citizens in every single American state from imposing term limits upon their own federal legislators.

What Clarence Thomas said in dissent in 1995 is no less true today than it was then; “It is ironic that the Court bases today’s decision on the right of the people to “choose whom they please to govern them.” Under our Constitution, there is only one State whose people have the right to “choose whom they please” to represent Arkansas in Congress … Nothing in the Constitution deprives the people of each State of the power to prescribe eligibility requirements for the candidates who seek to represent them in Congress. The Constitution is simply silent on this question. And where the Constitution is silent, it raises no bar to action by the States or the people.”

Hear, hear, Justice Thomas. I look forward to the day I read that very same passage in the majority opinion sometime next year.

Nick McNulty
Windham, N.H.