Davis: SCOTUS Needs To Extend Reverse Discrimination Ban To Schools, Not Just Workplaces

The Federalist ^ | June 05, 2025 | Shawn Fleetwood

[E. Pluribus Unum]

‘You can’t say that it’s OK to discriminate against someone because they’re white, but not OK because they’re black. We all know it’s wrong.’

The U.S. Supreme Court should extend its prohibition on reverse discrimination to American schools, not only workplaces, Federalist CEO Sean Davis said on Thursday.

The moment came during an interview Davis participated in on Fox News’ The Will Cain Show when the host of the same name asked The Federalist CEO to comment on a SCOTUS decision released on Thursday in a case known as Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services. As The Federalist reported, the nation’s highest court unanimously held “that ‘majority groups’ don’t have to provide more evidence than other groups to show discrimination.”

In referring to the decision as a “great result” for the country, Davis emphasized that the high court affirmed the notion that “you don’t get to have a different standard for proving discrimination based on whether the person is white or black or straight or gay.” He then went on to note potential implications the decision could have for a case that could be considered by SCOTUS in the near future that would extend this standard to U.S. schools.

Known as B.W. v. Austin Independent School District, the case centers on a student (Brooks Warden) who attended school in the Austin Independent School District in Texas.

According to the Manhattan Institute, Warden — a white Christian male — was reportedly bullied and harassed for expressing his support for President Trump by wearing a MAGA hat. The conservative think tank noted that “Brooks’s parents repeatedly reported the bullying and harassment to the AISD, but the District did nothing to prevent it from continuing.”

[frank ballenger]

The public education system wouldn’t last if discrimination were taken away from it.

Like the car bumper sticker:
Do Not Wash This Car.
Dirt Is All That’s Holding It Together.

[No name given]

‘SCOTUS Needs To Extend Reverse Discrimination Ban To Schools, Not Just Workplaces’

I couldn’t agree more.

[cnsmom]

My daughter is a highly regarded and loved elementary teacher she had a verbal offer of employment in a neighboring state but was told they needed to interview 5 minority candidates before she could get a written offer letter.

[frank ballenger]

Sad how much true talent has been lost by the discrimination off these years.

A past Mayor of Detroit Dennis Archer was a black businessman. In a WJR-am interview, a white businessman told of submitting far superior bid background information to his but being turned down. He said even with the unfair advantage of set-asides for contracts and special extra funding for minority businesses, that company and project failed.

How many hundreds more are like that and how much better would an honest, based on merit, system have improved America?

Michael Savage, whose father came to the US with no money, was so poor he couldn’t afford college. He went to the government college loan office and said “I’m poor. I have no money for college but I really want to go. Can you give me a loan?”
The government officer LAUGHED AT HIM. “You aren’t black.”
Savage (Michael Weiner) worked his way through college. He has original botanical findings still on file from his research.
University of Hawaii master’s degree in medical botany and
another master’s degree in medical anthropology and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in nutritional ethnomedicine. As Michael Weiner, he has written books on nutrition, herbal medicine.

[posterchild]

Discrimination is multi directional, there is no ‘reverse.’