Posted on 10/09/2012 6:45:35 AM PDT by blam
The Supreme Court Is Going To End Affirmative Action As We Know It
Erin Fuchs
Oct. 9, 2012, 8:00 AM
A University of Michigan student protests a ban on affirmative action.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in one of the most politically charged cases of the term – a challenge to the University of Texas at Austin's affirmative action policy.
The Supreme Court last upheld affirmative action in 2003, ruling the University of Michigan could use race as one factor to achieve a "critical mass" of minorities necessary for a diverse student body.
But a lot has changed since Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that opinion, including her replacement by right-leaning Samuel Alito.
Here's why the current court will probably kill or severely limit affirmative action: Alito, O'Connor's replacement, belonged to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which opposed affirmative action at the university, The New York Times has reported. Justice Anthony Kennedy, a key swing vote on the largely court, wrote the dissent in 2003 that opposed the majority's decision to uphold the Michigan affirmative action policy. At least four Supreme Court justices decided to review the Fifth Court decision that upheld UT's affirmative action policy. It's not too common for the high court to review a decision just to affirm it, former Supreme Court clerk Christopher Walker pointed out to Business Insider.
At UT, the school got much more diverse by admitting students in the top 10 percent of each high school in the state. Separately, the school used race as a factor for students who didn't make it in through the top 10 percent program.
The nation's highest court will likely rule that both these policies aren't necessary to achieve diversity, top Supreme Court lawyer Carter Phillips has told Business Insider.
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Dang!!! there go my chances of making it in the NBA
Not a day too soon.
I love it when the tables are turned on those who make the laws that now they refuse to live by.
I always wanted to be a soul train dancer.
You mean we don’t have to wait for Sandra Day Oconnor’s completely arbritrary, 25 years??
Pretty confident, I hope so, but they were also going to overturn the individual mandate of the so-called Affordable Care Act.
vaudine
"If, as a business owner, it's illegal to not hire you because of your race......why then is it ok to promote you for that very same reason?"
Crickets.....
Constitutionally, it’s absolutely clear that affirmative action must end.
However, way too many judges, including so-called conservative ones, take “societal impact” into account.
I would be very reluctant in predicting any conservative action by the Roberts Court. With his Obamacare decision, he proved that he is obsessed with playing to the liberal gallery. No reason to expect for him to revert to sanity now.
There go Obama’s hopes for a teleprompter in the next debate.
That rates an 8.95 on the No-Sh!t-O-Meter.
Kagan, Sotomayor, Ginsberg, Breyer, Kennedy, and Roberts.
Sounds like a 6-3 decision upholding redistribution of wealth.
Roberts will screw this up too.
I ask two similar questions about Obama.
1) If I refuse to vote for Obama just because he is black, am I a racist?
The answers are always yes.
2) If I vote for Obama just because he is black, am I a racist?
Silence.
The nation will end affirmative action by taking the ultimate non-racist action in November. Hiring a black president in 2008 was not that action. Firing him will be that action.
She wrote a 3 page letter to the Dean of the Law School about being victim of affirmative action policies.
The Dean responded that she was absolutely right and there wasn't anything he could do about it.
She was accepted at another law school and is a successful, conservative attorney.
Meanwhile, the mother, a UT alumni, was glad she got away from "that liberal cesspool" called UT.
Just like ObamaCare. No wait....
This sounds like what was said about the SC Obamacare decision - before the fact.
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