Category: Affirmative Action

Biden Unveils New Action on Student Loan Forgiveness After Supreme Court Ruling

A multi-billion dollar student loan forgiveness plan has now been struck down by the high court. What do students now face, and what’s the reaction from President Joe Biden? Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) joins us to weigh in on the Supreme Court’s decisions on affirmative action and student loan forgiveness. She has introduced a bill dealing with the college…


[PREMIERING 8PM ET] Why SCOTUS Ruling on Affirmative Action Is a Victory for Both Black and Asian Students—Kenny Xu, Plaintiff in the Case [ATL:NOW]

“I oppose affirmative action. But I also oppose legacy admissions, I oppose any kind of process or system that tries to degrade us from the principle of merit that our country was built upon. We’re founded upon excellence. That’s what the American dream is….That is a universal Maxim with which we should be striving to.”…


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Criticized for Comments Supporting Affirmative Action

Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s critical take on the Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action policies and bar schools from applying race-based criteria to admissions has faced an outpouring of criticism online. The Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision on June 29 revived a strict interpretation of the 14th Amendment to make clear that equal…


Diversity ‘Essential to Academic Excellence’: Harvard Responds to Supreme Court Ruling

Following the Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action in college and university admissions, Harvard University, one of the nation’s most prestigious institutions and one of the schools named in the case, responded with the argument that using race as a factor in the admission process is “essential to academic excellence.” In a statement released June…


ANALYSIS: SCOTUS Decision on Affirmative Action Will Spark More Lawsuits, Experts Say

The U.S. Supreme Court decision barring the use of race as a criterion for college admissions rights a wrong, according to proponents of the ruling, rather than perpetuates historic injustice as critics have claimed. The 6-3 decision in Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College reconstituted a strict interpretation of the 14th…


ANALYSIS: SCOTUS Harvard Decision on Affirmative Action Will Spark More Lawsuits, Experts Say

The U.S. Supreme Court decision barring the use of race as a criterion for college admissions rights a wrong, according to proponents of the ruling, rather than perpetuates historic injustice as critics have claimed. The 6-3 decision in Fair Admissions Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College reconstituted a strict interpretation of the 14th…


Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Program

The Supreme Court voted 6–3 on June 30 to strike down President Joe Biden’s controversial plan to partially forgive student loans. The six conservative justices voted to invalidate the program in the closely watched case, while the three liberal justices voted to uphold it. Biden unveiled the plan in August 2022 in a move critics…


Supreme Court Ends the Last Vestige of ‘Systemic Racism’ in America

Commentary On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the greatest majority opinion ever written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts. That one-time Obamacare savior, who in 2012 rewrote the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” in order to salvage President Barack Obama’s signature domestic policy, this time penned a landmark ruling abolishing something…


After Affirmative Action Ruling, Sen. Tim Scott Says Legacy Admissions Should Also End

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), a candidate for the 2024 GOP nomination for president, cheered the landmark and historic ruling of the Supreme Court and its conservative majority on June 29 in which the court found that it is unconstitutional for institutions of higher education to consider race when making admission decisions. Scott then called on…


Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling Draws Celebration and Criticism

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-based admissions policies at U.S. colleges—known as affirmative action policies—was met with celebration as well as disappointment and defiance. Prior to Thursday’s decision, the Supreme Court had allowed colleges to weigh an applicant’s race when making admissions decisions. In the 1978 case Regents of the University of…