Posted on 05/16/2024 6:15:31 AM PDT by CFW
More than two-thirds of Americans think the Supreme Court was right to hold Harvard's race-based admissions policy unlawful. But the minority who disagree have no doubt about their own moral authority, and there's every reason to believe that they intend to undo the Court's decision at the earliest opportunity.
Which could be as soon as this year. In fact, undoing the Harvard admissions decision is the least of it. Republicans and Democrats in Congress have embraced a precooked "privacy" bill that will impose race/gender quotas not just on academic admissions but on practically every private and public decision that matters to ordinary Americans. The provision could be adopted without scrutiny in a matter of weeks; that's because it is packaged as part of a bipartisan bill setting federal privacy standards—something that has been out of reach in Washington for decades. And it looks as though the bill breaks the deadlock by giving Republicans some of the federal preemption their business allies want while it gives Democrats and left-wing advocacy groups a provision that will quietly overrule the Supreme Court's Harvard decision and impose identity-based quotas on a wide swath of American life.
This tradeoff first showed up in a 2023 bill that Democratic and Republican members of the House commerce committee approved by an overwhelming 53-2 vote. That bill, however, never won the support of Sen. Cantwell(D-WA), who chairs the Senate commerce committee. This time around, a lightly revised version of the bill has been endorsed by both Sen. Cantwell and her House counterpart, Cathy McMorris Rodgers(R-WA). The bill has a new name, the American Privacy RightsAct of 2024(APRA), but it retains the earlier bill's core provision, which uses a "disparate impact" test to impose race, gender, and other quotas on practically every institutional decision of importance to Americans.
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Maybe if “Reason” leaned left a little less we could all build a coalition to counter what they’re worried about.
The purpose of quotas is to ensure everybody learns at the slowest rates, so the elites can maintain an education advantage.
It also uses minorities to subsidize the cost of education.
Wasn’t the Supreme Court’s decision based on equal protection?
Congress can overrule the Court on matters of statutory interpretation, but not on matters where the decision is grounded on rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
The GOP conservatives in Congress are there to conserve leftist victories—while getting rich doing it.
That’s the way I see it. SCOTUS will slap this portion down I’m thinking.
If they really want to force quotas such as these, they’ll have to get an Amendment passed. Good luck with that.
I only donate to true Conservatives and since there are only 6 I hope the ranks increase. RINOs are responsible for the destruction of America!
I think few Congress reps of any party read completely read a bill under consideration, and some may not read a bill at all. If anyone does read a bill it is persons on the Congress reps staff and they are all well indoctrinated college educated persons who often arrive at their jobs with the biases and prejudices they were brainwashed into in college.
What does the Congress critter think they are voting for?
They think they are voting for what is the public description of the bill, not what is actually in it.
“I was elected to lead, not to read.”
Congress has no business dictating something as stupid as this! Watch who votes for this evil and do everything you can to defeat these weasels.
GOP are towel boys and girls in the bathhouse of the evil congressrats.
The problems with relying on the court are 1. It takes forever while people’s rights are violated and damages accrue and 2. You can’t rely on them.
“Disparate impact”...there’s those words again...I hated those words when I worked in HR many moons ago
The ‘Premes should have squelched “disparate impact” years ago.
All any of this does is diminish the esteem of an elite American university. We’re I in such a position I would not hire any Ivy League graduate.
How nice.
Here in Mexican California, White kids were 18.6% of the admitted freshman class in 2022.
Got that folks? Less then 20%. In the schools their ancestors thought up, built and paid for with their taxes. Schools that were 80% White just 40 years ago and for the previous 100 years...when they were built by White Americans.
Even with Prop 209, the schools get around it by using “First Generation” as a criteria. This means that you get extra points if nobody in your immediate family went to college. Hint: children of illegal aliens. There are a million other workarounds.
So now they want to bring back Un-Constitutional discrimination against White people..you know, the Americans?
How disgusting.
Mark Steyn has said for 20+ years that in the West, there are no true conservative opposition parties to the vast socialist deep-state. If conservatives ever do achieve power, they are merely seat-warmers and accountants for left who will always come back more aggressive than ever. So "conservative" politicians play the game to keep their status and perks.
+1 agree with Stein
Excellent job by Stewart Baker in slogging through this topic and making it understandable.
First the dems lose to the Supremes and then regroup and figure out to get what they want and more. They bury this disguised nuke in a privacy bill that goes further than the original quotas fiasco.
Athletic scholarships are thee only things that are based on merit and not quotas.
Maybe they should be! It may be the only way to get the average person’s attention if their college teams couldn’t be based on merit. The screaming, outrage and convoluted reasoning would be very entertaining.
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