Posted on 06/23/2016 7:26:00 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin, handing supporters of affirmative action a major victory.
The vote was 4-3. Only seven justices participated in the decision, as Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself for prior work on the case as United States solicitor general and the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat remains vacant.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr, dissented.
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And so what if it was?
It's a question of right and wrong, not a question of "what MLK had in mind".
A woman denied equal access to college, and liberals will cheer the decision.
Hell, being the operative word for Teddy right now.
Better pack a lunch.
Well, we CAN call on MLK here as another witness to the right and wrong, is the point.
these affirmative action “graduates” WILL get jobs....if you wonder why many things in our country don’t work properly, just look at how many are sitting in jobs that they have no qualifications for....
Barring some pre-mortal encounter with the divine that we have no documentation of in this world.
What God will accept often is different from what the world will.
That seems to be an opportune role of “civil service.”
My argument against “affirmative action” in the context of a different case from a few years ago.
Kennedy gotta have that “legacy”
What a POS he is....NO PERSON means exactly that . . NO PERSON
If one won’t compete, one doesn’t belong. You work and you get admitted on MERIT . .nothing else matters in fairness
The athletes don’t do any better in spite of the “tutoring”
Your last sentence is spot on. They drop like flies when the rubber hits the road, perpetuating stereotypes, furthering resentment and further justifying why these programs are unconstitutional from the get-go.
No amount of quotas or racial asskissing will change that. You gotta work to succeed.
I’m greatly disturbed by this decision, and feel bad for the young woman at the forefront of this case. So the Supreme Court says it’s just fine to discriminate against whites???
Got that right. This is an appalling decision.
Whites need not apply— especially white males. Merit means nothing!! It is all about destroying whites!!
Maddening, isn’t it?
Black Lives Matter has been demanding segregation of whites from others for the “comfort” of blacks.
The sad fact is the laws on this should have been changed the second we W was elected and had the congress!
We need to stop doing what the left always does, which is hope the supreme court will step in.
We HAD the presidency and congress, and LEFT crap legislation like this on the books!
Kennedy is a racist.
Just look at our current President and Attorney General to see what horrors affirmative action hath wrought.
Affirmation action does nothing but engender understandable resentment among whites and asians and provide an inferior education for minorities.
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