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A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a new admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia that critics say discriminates against highly qualified Asian Americans. The 2-1 ruling from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond overturns a ruling last year from a federal judge who found that the Fairfax County School Board engaged in impermissible “racial balancing” when it overhauled the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. The school frequently is cited among the best in the nation, and parents jockey and prepare for...

Three and a half years into President Trump’s presidency, not all lawsuits the Obama administration filed at the last minute alleging discrimination by companies have been thrown out. After Trump won the presidency, Obama’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs within the Department of Labor filed lawsuits against Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco Systems and Palantir, alleging discrimination for supposedly hiring the wrong percentages of women and minorities and paying them unequally. If the discrimination was so serious, why did the Obama administraton wait to file the lawsuits until the last few days of its lameduck tenure? There was no evidence...

Related Videos | expand "It's probably from, you know, growing up in Hawaii and it's sunny outside, and sitting on the beach," President Obama also said on an interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters set to air Friday night on "20/20." In the full interview, set to air tonight, President Obama says that "nothing frustrates me more than when people aren't doing their jobs."

One reason the supporters of Obamacare were initially overconfident about its supposed invulnerability to legal challenges was their belief that the man who signed it into law was an expert on the Constitution. This misplaced faith was based on statements Obama himself made during his first presidential campaign. At a 2007 fundraiser, for example, he told his admirers, "I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution." This claim turned out, of course, to be one of Obama's trademark shadings of the truth. He was never a "professor" as genuine academics use...

President Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

Ruling in favor of white firefighters in New Haven Conn. the Supreme Court reversed that decision today, saying that the firefighters were denied promotions because of their race, which is reverse discrimination. Because of today’s decision, reverse discrimination is now illegal. This decision is expected to significantly affect Sotomayor’s nomination, as she has been identified as a judge who is very willing to rule in favor of race where ever the law allows her to. Being a member of the racist group “La Raza” which is the Hispanic community’s KKK, does not help. As it was noted by the Canadian...

If Barack Obama is looking for proof there are indeed bitter Americans out there, he need look no further than across the kitchen table. Morning Joe opened today with a clip of Michelle Obama on the stump that I can only call stunning. By her tone, and her language both verbal and physical, this is one angry lady. The transcript below doesn't begin to convey Mrs. Obama's apparent rage.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele got the most votes in the third round of balloting for the Republican National Committee chairmanship. He got 51, but that wasn't enough. Because 85 votes are required for elevation to the helm of the party, the RNC will vote a fourth time.

Relations between India and Pakistan were on a knife edge last night amid fears that Delhi’s response to the Mumbai attacks could undermine the Pakistani army’s campaign against Islamic militants on the frontier with Afghanistan. Officials and analysts in the region believe that last week’s atrocities were designed to provoke a crisis, or even a war, between the nuclear-armed neighbours, diverting Islamabad’s attention from extremism in tribal areas bordering Afghanistan and thus relieving pressure on al-Qaeda, Taleban and other militants based there. One analyst even described the attacks as a “pre-emptive strike” against Barack Obama’s strategy to put Pakistan and...

Spurred partly by campus and community concern over dwindling numbers of African American students, UCLA is moving toward a major shift in its admissions process, perhaps as early as this fall. The changes in admissions, pushed by acting Chancellor Norman Abrams and several faculty leaders, would be the most dramatic at UCLA in at least five years. They would move the Westwood campus toward a more "holistic" admissions model — much like UC Berkeley's — in which students' achievements are viewed in the context of their personal experiences.

The 'Critical Mass' Mess By Frederick M. Hess TCS Two weeks have passed since the Supreme Court handed down its momentous decision on the Michigan affirmative action cases. While the Court's highly political "split decision" has prompted much discussion, nearly all commentary has overlooked the simple fact that the Court has read into constitutional doctrine a new and potentially powerful justification for race-based quotas in educational settings. In embracing the right of universities to seek a "critical mass" of minority students, Justice O'Connor's majority decision in Grutter v. Bollinger (the law school case) opened a door better left shut. Analysis...

Rick Bragg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, has been suspended for two weeks from writing for the paper, the Columbia Journalism Review has learned. The news comes after the Times published an Editors’ Note Friday clarifying Bragg’s handling of a front-page feature story last June in the small, oyster-shucking town of Apalachicola, Florida. Earlier in the week, a reader had written to the Times expressing concern that Bragg had never been spotted in Apalachicola. According to the Editors’ Note, and Bragg himself, it was Bragg’s intern at the time, J. Wes Yoder, who did all the...

As politicians and advocacy groups line up on either side of the affirmative action issue in advance of an upcoming Supreme Court ruling on race-based college admissions policies, one group appears not to be concerned: high school guidance counselors. By the time this year's high school juniors begin applying to college next fall, current admissions policies may be changed. Early this summer, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on two challenges to race-based admissions policies at the University of Michigan. If the court rules that Michigan's policies are unconstitutional, colleges and universities around the country could be forced to...

A Dream Denied Leads Woman to Center of Suit Gratz's Rejection by U-Mich. Led Her to Fight Against Race-Conscious Admissions By Anne Hull Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 23, 2003; Page A01 OCEANSIDE, Calif. -- Jennifer Gratz has heard it all. That she's a pawn of the right. That she's hijacked the language of the civil rights era. That her lawsuit against the University of Michigan's affirmative action policy cloaks a deeper agenda about race. "Totally crazy," says the 25-year-old, shaking her head. The facts. In 1995, Gratz was a high school student with a 3.8 GPA, the golden...

The obvious student for Newsweek to feature on its cover would have been . . . Jennifer Gratz, the very photogenic lead plaintiff in the Center for Individual Rights's (CIR) lawsuit against the University of Michigan's undergraduate program. Either that or Barbara Grutter, the plaintiff in CIR's suit against the law school. But, of course they wouldn't do. They are the wrong victims, for heaven's sake. Those women are white. They would spoil the whole slant of the Newsweek story, and readers might be left thinking that the use of racial and ethnic preferences resulted in people being discriminated against....