SCOTUS accepts two challenges to Affirmative Action (UNC/Harvard admissions)

[CitizenVectron]

 

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

SCOTUS is gonna be busy overturning stuff this year apparently:

 

Supreme Court will consider challenge to affirmative action in Harvard, UNC admissions

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The Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the use of affirmative action in the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina.

 

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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear challenges to the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina, presenting the most serious threat in decades to the use of affirmative action by the nation's public and private colleges and universities.

 

Despite similar challenges, the court has repeatedly upheld affirmative action in the past. But two liberal justices who were key to those decisions are gone — Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their replacements, Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are conservative and considered less likely to find the practice constitutional.

 

In the latest case, a group backed by a longtime opponent of affirmative action, Edward Blum of Maine, sued Harvard in federal court, claiming its undergraduate admissions system discriminated against Asian-American students. Lower courts ruled that the school's limited consideration of race was a legitimate effort to achieve a more diverse student body.

 

 

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

“The way to stop racism is to stop considering race at all.” Written by justice Thomas coming to a docket near you

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

“The way to stop racism is to stop considering race at all.” Written by justice Thomas coming to a docket near you

 

OF COURSE they're going to have Clarence write the majority opinion!

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

OF COURSE they're going to have Clarence write the majority opinion!

Failing that they’ll have a cowardly 6-3/5-4 per curiam as they like to do

[chakoo]

I look forward to the follow up NYT article from justices worried people will see them as being partisan when they pinky swear they're not.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Since this is the newest scotus thread, I’m going to dump this thread/article in here since it’s very good

 

[Guest]

I don’t like race based affirmative action for the purpose of college admissions. I would rather put even greater emphasis on increasing admissions of low income students.

[CitizenVectron]

1 hour ago, sblfilms said:

I don’t like race based affirmative action for the purpose of college admissions. I would rather put even greater emphasis on increasing admissions of low income students.

 

Don't worry I'm sure they'll come for that, next.

[GeneticBlueprint]

13 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Don't worry I'm sure they'll come for that, next.

 

When they came for my race I said nothing because I was white. When they came for my money it didn't matter because I never had any to begin with.