“I heard him; I was like, ‘let me read it again … Whoa.’ ” This magisterial analysis was Donald Trump’s response to a point Justice Antonin Scalia voiced last week during arguments in the Supreme Court affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin.

Scalia, citing a brief, said: “There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school — a slower-track school where they do well.”