Good!
Justices questions are unreliable predictors.
Hook em Horns!! WE DO NOT GIVE THINGS BASED ON RACE!! That is RACISM!!
I don’t trust this court. They have managed to screw over the American people pretty good for their Kenyan boss. They’ve allowed the bastard to run roughshod over the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I don’t see them changing until a Republican is back in the White House. Then everything he does will be “unconstitutional”.
They ruled against AA in the University of Michigan case.
Hmmmmm sounds like the SCOTUS has been paying attention to Thomas Sowell’s writings.
Why, Chief Justice Roberts, it is a tax. We are wetting our beaks. Surely, the payola to do physics research should not just go to those deemed worthy to do physics experiments. Who decides? Other tired old white males? Surely there is no justice in that. Again, Chief Justice, we submit that what we seek is an equal distribution of a tax for the good of all.
Without Affirmative Action we would not have great black leaders like Sharpton, Revs. Jackson and Wright and our first semi-black president, B.O.
Seriously do not know if they all benefited, but B.O. did. And they will all be mad as old wet black hens.
Affirmative Action, like the forests of public housing in the inner cities, needed to be dynamited long ago.
Keep in mind that oral arguments don’t really have a great deal of correlation between the questions asked at OA, and the decisions eventually reached. They can be interesting reads as a primer to the issues likely to be dealt with in the decision, but you can’t take the questions asked at face value, especially with the more political leftist judges.
Affirmative Action, at its core, is discrimination - against those who are smart enough to get into a school on their own merits, but are bumped by someone academically inferior, simply because they had the right race.
But beyond that, AA doesn’t do what it was set up to do - help minorities - because it throws academically-unprepared minorities into the same mix as students that ARE prepared, and predictably, the minorities don’t do as well and get frustrated.
AA is a unfair mess that isn’t solving anything - that’s the point the Supreme Court was trying to make (I think).
Sounds to me as though Scalia has been paying attention to Trump’s success at speaking politically incorrect truths and facts.
Good for him.
Now, open the flood gates and let political correctness be inundated and drown out of existence by the truth.
Why does it “draw gasps” when someone states the obvious???
Unfortunately even a win might leave in place the “top 10% per school” rule. Which is backdoor affirmative action.
Affirmative Action is Stolen Valor without the uniform and medals.
Is anyone here even looking at the details of this case?
With all the talk here about college students behaving like little snowflakes, this student sure fits the profile:
- She didn’t quite make the top 10% of her class.
- Her SAT score was a little bit above average: 1180 out of 1600.
So, she was never guaranteed admission based on those scores. She ended up at a different university, so what’s the big deal?
I have a son who scored high enough for an Ivy League university. He was rejected. There’s no guarantee that you’ll be admitted to a college (unless it’s a community college).
Affirmative action is nothing more than government sponsored racism. Always has been. Entry into anything should not be based on race or gender. I can see how some credit is given to vets from the military, police depts, and fireman who have been injured or disabled while in the process of protecting the country or community.
This is the court that abolished marriage. Expect the worst.