Tag: Students for Fair Admissions

State AGs Tell Top 100 CEOs That SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling Applies to Them Too

State attorneys general from Tennessee, Kansas, and 11 other states put 100 of America’s largest corporations on notice that, following the Supreme Court decision against racial discrimination at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, private companies would be held to the same standard.  In a July 13 letter to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies,…


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…


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…


Group That Won Supreme Court Case on Affirmative Action Holds Press Conference

Students for Fair Admissions, the Group that won the case on Affirmative Action against Harvard and University of North Carolina at the Supreme Court, holds a press conference at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 29 at the National Press Club in Washington. …


LIVE NOW: Asian Americans Rally for Historic US Supreme Court Decision

Representatives of a coalition of organizations and Asian American community members rally at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court at 12:00 p.m. ET on June 29, right after the release of the Supreme Court decision on the landmark cases of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel…


Asian Americans Rally for Landmark US Supreme Court Decision

Representatives of a coalition of organizations and Asian American community members rally at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court at 12:00 p.m. ET on June 29, right after the release of the Supreme Court decision on the landmark cases of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard University and University of North Carolina at Chapel…