Tag: SCOTUS

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After Supreme Court Colorblind Ruling, the Slavery Reparations Fight Lives On as ‘Not Race-Based’

News Analysis The uncertain legality of paying reparations for slavery and its legacies came into focus two weeks ago when the U.S. Supreme Court rejected racial preferences in college admissions nationwide. But while some see the ruling as a major setback for the reparations movement, it isn’t likely to deter its advocates, who say that…


[PREMIERING NOW] Heather Mac Donald: SCOTUS Left Key Loophole in Affirmative Action Decision [ATL:NOW]

“I’m too familiar with colleges to believe that this is going to be the radical change in college admissions and academic standards, as many conservatives are portraying … Rather inexplicably, the majority opinion left open a wide loophole for colleges to continue to use race to lower their academic admission standards for black students,” argues…


Heather Mac Donald: SCOTUS Left Key Loophole in Affirmative Action Decision [ATL:NOW]

“I’m too familiar with colleges to believe that this is going to be the radical change in college admissions and academic standards, as many conservatives are portraying … Rather inexplicably, the majority opinion left open a wide loophole for colleges to continue to use race to lower their academic admission standards for black students,” argues…


[PREMIERING 7/7, 9:30AM ET] Heather Mac Donald: SCOTUS Left Key Loophole in Affirmative Action Decision [ATL:NOW]

“I’m too familiar with colleges to believe that this is going to be the radical change in college admissions and academic standards, as many conservatives are portraying … Rather inexplicably, the majority opinion left open a wide loophole for colleges to continue to use race to lower their academic admission standards for black students,” argues…


[PREMIERING 9:30AM ET] Heather Mac Donald: SCOTUS Left Key Loophole in Affirmative Action Decision [ATL:NOW]

“I’m too familiar with colleges to believe that this is going to be the radical change in college admissions and academic standards, as many conservatives are portraying … Rather inexplicably, the majority opinion left open a wide loophole for colleges to continue to use race to lower their academic admission standards for black students,” argues…


SCOTUS Brings a New Birth of Freedom

Commentary The series of decisions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court in its latest session are so consequential that I would call it “a new birth of freedom.” These are, of course, the words of Abraham Lincoln at the bloody battlefield at Gettysburg. There is a deep and meaningful connection between Lincoln’s words then,…


Unravelling the Damage Inflicted by Past Judicial Activism

Commentary Judicial activism. The role of the democratic legislature. The separation of powers. The creative tensions between the two. They are all substantive issues vitally important to the proper functioning of our body politic. It is right and proper that those who make the laws are not the interpreters of those laws. So we have…


All Racism Is Evil, Supreme Court Rules

Commentary The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that racial preferences in college admissions violate the U.S. Constitution. At last! No student with high grades and test scores should be rejected in favor of a lesser applicant who happens to have a certain skin color. The evidence provided to the court showed that Harvard College and…


US Lawmakers Divided Over Supreme Court’s 2 Major Rulings

The conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court has been busy in the final days before its summer break, and the decisions it handed down this week have heartened and made Congressional Republicans mostly happy and left their colleagues on the other side of the aisle mostly unhappy and in many cases angry.   Following the court’s historic…