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Supreme Court signals it may outlaw most affirmative action at universities
Los Angeles Times via San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Jan. 24, 2022 | David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times

Posted on 01/25/2022 12:59:16 AM PST by thecodont

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a major challenge to race-based affirmative action in the nation’s college and universities, setting the stage for another long-sought win for conservatives.

The justices voted to hear a pair of appeals contending that Harvard University, the nation’s oldest private university, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the oldest public university, are violating civil rights laws by giving preferences to some minority students seeking admission while discriminating against others, including Asian Americans.

They ask the court to rule that universities, whether public or private, may “not use race as a factor in admissions.” And they rely on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says no person “shall be subjected to discrimination ... on the ground of race, color or national origin” in a school or university that receives federal funds.

Since 1978, however, the Supreme Court has held that colleges, universities and law schools may consider a student’s race or ethnicity as a “plus factor” in order to create more diversity in their classes. In recent decades, the court took up anti-affirmative action challenges to the admissions policies at the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Texas, but upheld them narrowly over sharp dissents from the conservatives.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. was among the dissenters, and he now has five more conservative justices on his right. And they are in position to overturn the past rulings that upheld affirmative action.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: affirmativeaction; education; scotus; supremecourt
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To: thecodont

It’s not a win for conservatives it’s a win for limiting government and ridding of racist tyrannical politicians.


21 posted on 01/25/2022 4:11:35 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: thecodont

Let’s use this argument against the Liberal nutjobs!

Since 1982 more women have been accepted to and graduated from college than men (44.1m women vs 34.4m men)! Isn’t it time to adjust college admissions and graduations to relieve men of this disparate impact?!?

I think we should have affirmative actions for men to get accepted to and graduate from college EQUAL TO WOMEN!


22 posted on 01/25/2022 4:37:55 AM PST by ExTxMarine (Diversity is necessary; diverse points of views will not be tolerated.)
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To: thecodont
Affirmative Action: Telling an entire race of people that they cannot accomplish anything in life without Government Help.

That's the WORST form of racism and subjugates them to a life of despair and failure. END IT!

23 posted on 01/25/2022 4:45:57 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Its All Over Except ...

Yet Asians continue to outperform blacks in every walk of life outside sports and politics.


24 posted on 01/25/2022 4:47:57 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: central_va

I belong here more than you, idiot.


25 posted on 01/25/2022 4:48:57 AM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: thecodont

If this happens, Deep State won’t be doing it for a good reason.

It’s a big IF, however...


26 posted on 01/25/2022 4:49:05 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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To: rbg81
Even if SCOTUS outlaws race-based admissions, the Left will still find a way to continue it.

Exactly right. They'll simply switch to a form of reverse red-lining, where they accept a specific number of students based on zipcode or neighborhood, for example. Those zipcodes & neighborhoods will be overwhelming majority a specific skin color.

That'll take YEARS to work through the courts and the progressive left knows this, which is exactly why they'll do it.

Then when that's outlawed, they'll simply implement their second, then third, then fourth alternatives to skirting the law.

That's what they do.

27 posted on 01/25/2022 4:52:02 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: HYPOCRACY

College of Charleston was founded in 1770.


28 posted on 01/25/2022 5:19:18 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: ExTxMarine

Now THAT’S good!


29 posted on 01/25/2022 5:56:57 AM PST by Bigbrown
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To: thecodont

It should of been completely 100% outlawed to consider race AT ALL period anywhere for any reason.

This is the root cause of much of the racial animosity in this country for the last few decades.


30 posted on 01/25/2022 6:02:24 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: thecodont

About time that AA was outlawed.

It only creates contempt for its beneficiaries.


31 posted on 01/25/2022 6:04:44 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (FJB/LGB (Let's Go, Brandon!))
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To: MDLION

No, but I do remember that it was Sandra Day O’Connor who said it.


32 posted on 01/25/2022 6:06:15 AM PST by jpsb
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To: thecodont

Hmmm, just taking a case is a signal?


33 posted on 01/25/2022 6:06:59 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Unconstitutional laws are never right.


34 posted on 01/25/2022 6:53:04 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: equaviator

“..Seems like 44 years ought to be long enough, and once it’s gone, it should also be long gone...“

^THIS^
It was nothing but BS to begin with.
How many good, qualified kids were passed over for this crap?
How many good doctors, engineers, etc. were held back because of this BS crap? The time to end it has been loonnnnng overdue.


35 posted on 01/25/2022 8:24:09 AM PST by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: thecodont

It is really negative action against Asian students. That is the way it should be described.


36 posted on 01/25/2022 8:24:10 AM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: thecodont

Harvard owes reparations to white and Asian students who were not accepted due to affirmative action.

Their endowment should be clawed back—a million dollars in damages per otherwise qualified student they discriminated against.


37 posted on 01/25/2022 8:25:53 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Racism is never acceptable for any reason.

Anti-white and anti-Asian racism is racism—and there are no excuses for it.


38 posted on 01/25/2022 8:27:27 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: McCarthysGhost

Sorry, but you are the virtue signaling buffoon.


39 posted on 01/25/2022 8:36:13 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: thecodont

Meanwhile the State of California is busy introducing a communist ‘equity’ policy to state employment and they’re kicking it off with mandatory indoctrination sessions for all employees.

The indoctrination will come from Morehouse College.

https://www.national.training/


40 posted on 01/25/2022 11:28:44 AM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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