Posted on 08/28/2014 1:17:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earlier this year, Sonia Sotomayor appeared on ABC’s the week to plug her new book, My Beloved World. ABC reporter George Stephanopoulos declared that the Supreme Court Justice “knows that affirmative action made a difference in her life, and believes it’s still necessary.”
Stephanopoulos continued,
“There’s been a lot of scholarly work that says it’s not the best way to insure diversity in schools, and maybe if you focus on where people live, and how much money they make, you can get the same results, in a way that is less fractious.”
To which the Justice responded,
“…the problem with that answer is that it doesn’t work….it’s not that I don’t believe that it doesn’t work, it’s that the statistics show it doesn’t work.”
Sotomayor, as you may recall, read a lengthy dissent in Schuette v. Coalition, the case which determined that states may ban racial preferences in higher education – a conclusion Sotomayor vehemently disagreed with.
Unmentioned in this discussion were the words “quotas” or “Bakke.” After being twice rejected by UC Davis medical school, Allen Bakke sued. His suit alleged that UC Davis’s two tiered admissions process, for whites and non-whites, violated his rights under both the fourteenth amendment and the civil rights act.
UC Davis medical school had two separate admissions programs: a regular program, and a special program intended to help disadvantaged students. Applicants to the special program would compete against each other, and would not be compared to regular applicants. Importantly, the special program accepted applicants with college GPA’s below 2.5.
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The U.S. Navy, for example, makes both “equal opportunity” and “diversity” claims.
These are mutually exclusive terms and programs.
Sotomayor is quite possible the stupidest person to ever sit on the SCOTUS. However, she is not the laziest. That honor belongs to Thurgood Marshall who hardly ever did a lick of work and let his law clerks do everything.
The “Wise Latino Woman” is a disgrace.
Freedman-related issues aside, the only race-based issue that the states have amended the Constitution to grant Congress the specific power to protect is voting rights as evidenced by the 19th Amendment.
Otherwise, the states uniquely have the 10th Amendment-protected power to make policy for intrastate schools.
"His suit alleged that UC Davis’s two tiered admissions process, for whites and non-whites, violated his rights under both the fourteenth amendment and the civil rights act [emphasis added]."
Regarding the intentions of 14th Amendment (14A) lawmakers, not only did John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, clarify in the congressional record that the amendment applied only protections enumerated to the Constitution by the states to the states, but the Supreme Court has also officially clarified the same thing.
“Mr. Speaker, this House may safely follow the example of the makers of the Constitution and the builders of the Republic, by passing laws for enforcing all the privileges and immunities of the United States as guaranteed by the amended Constitution and expressly enumerated in the Constitution [emphasis added].” — Congressional Globe, House of Representatives, 42nd Congress, 1st Session. (See lower half of third column.)
“3. The right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or immunities of citizenship before the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, and that amendment does not add to these privileges and immunities. It simply furnishes additional guaranty for the protection of such as the citizen already had [emphasis added].” —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
Again, since the states have never amended the Constitution to enumerate so-called student rights, there are no constitutionally enumerated student rights to apply to the states via 14A.
A friend of mine is a Radcliffe grad (before their formal merger with Harvard) one of whose classmates is now at Harvard’s admissions office.That friend tells her that were it not for Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policy just about every class would consist almost entirely of Jews and Asians.I kid you not
I worked for years at a very famous and very highly regarded hospital.The medical staff,both the physicians in training and staff physicians,are claimed to be the best found anywhere.They were graduates of Harvard,Yale.Columbia,Hopkins...you name it.And I guarantee that you could tell the differences,subtle though they often were,between the minority folks and the others.
The USSC should have put an end to all of this racist, sexist nonsense in Bakke
Cowards each and other one of them.
The plain and simple rule is: If you won’t compete, you don’t belong.
Sotomayor may be the most intelligent “Hispanic” to sit there though.....
RE: Where did Justice Sotomayer get her law degree?
Princeton University.
“That friend tells her that were it not for Harvard’s affirmative action admissions policy just about every class would consist almost entirely of Jews and Asians.I kid you not.”
It’s true. I went to MIT for aeronautical engineering and was wait listed until the last moment -— even though I had a 4.3, a 1580 SAT (out of 1600 back then), and was a fricking combat FIGHTER PILOT.
I had a candid conversion with admission lady who said the same thing as your friend, who advised me to not reveal I was Jewish in further applications -— which is basically impossible for an Israeli whose first and last name are about as Jewish as they get. Oh, and who explains being out of school after G12 by saying “I was drafted into the Israeli Air Force due to passing certain tests.”
She then told me it was to “right past discrimination” -— that was pretty rich to me, given 3/4 grandparents all but died in the Shoa.
That said, the discrimination put me on the road to being a fire-breathing conservative.
RE: Sotomayor may be the most intelligent “Hispanic” to sit there though.....
A Hispanic who would have made a great SCOTUS justice would have been Miguel Estrada... whose nomination to the courts was delayed to death by the dems until he grew frustrated and asked that his name be withdrawn.
My response to that would have been, "So?"
I correct myself. She went to Princeton for her undergrad and then went to Yale ( same university as the Clinton’s ) for law School.
And although constitutionally indefensible federal tax dollars may have been a part of her scholarship, it's good that she didn't spend her own money for her indoctrination.
Isn’t ,Sotomayor a White Hispanic?
The emphasis is on HISPANIC, not WHITE.
Just as the emphasis for Elizabeth Warren was Native American Indian, not white ( even though her being Native American is questionable).
No,this wasn't to indicate that that was wrong.Meritocracy,after all.It was to indicate how pervasive...and perverse...affirmative action is.
Hey,have you been living under a rock or something? She's a "wise Latina".
Get that straight,pal!
Are we allowed to say "straight" on FR?
Because quotas are the only way people with IQs of 85 get into college.
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