Category: racial quotas

Court Rules That California Race Law Is ‘Unconstitutional on Its Face’

May 20, 2023
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In a landmark decision on May 17, a California district court blocked a state law mandating racial quotas on corporate boards as it violated the U.S. Constitution. The California law, AB979, required that a minimum number of people from “designated racial, ethnic, and LGBTQ backgrounds” have a seat on corporate boards. But the court ruling…

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Former Medical Educator Criticizes Harvard’s Withdrawal From College Ranking System

January 20, 2023
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A former medical educator has criticized Harvard Medical School’s withdrawal from the U.S. News and World Report’s school ranking system, stating that the college is sacrificing merit for diversity. “The U.S. News and World Report’s magazine ranking system for medical schools has long presented a problem for prestigious institutions like Harvard and Penn, where I…

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Outgoing Arkansas Governor Sued Over Enforcing Race-Based Quota in State Appointments

January 8, 2023
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A man has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Arkansas because state law prevents him from serving on a state board because of the color of his skin. The legal complaint (pdf) in the case, Haile v. Hutchinson, filed Jan. 4 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, claims that a…

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Exiting Arkansas Governor Sued Over Enforcing Race-Based Quota in State Appointments

January 8, 2023
Arkansasasa hutchinsonconstitutional rightsFeatured TopicsJudiciaryPacific Legal FoundationPolicies & Impactsracial quotasRegional-Local NewsUSUS News
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An Arkansas man has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state because state law prevents him from serving on a state board because of the color of his skin. The legal complaint (pdf) in the case, Haile v. Hutchinson, which was filed on Jan. 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern…

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Apartheid Thinking Seems to Have Infected the Intelligentsia

December 12, 2022
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Commentary Having worked briefly in South Africa at the height of apartheid, I’m surprised by the degree to which the mentality of apartheid seems to have infected the intelligentsia of the United States. The analogy is by no means exact, and there are significant differences between the two countries, of course, but the obsession with…

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