There goes affirmative action.

[Nevilledog]

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Adam Liptak
@adamliptak
BREAKING: Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to affirmative action programs at Harvard and University of North Carolina
7:32 AM · Jan 24, 2022

[Lovie777]

1. Yep ....

[Nevilledog]

2. Article

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Heidi Przybyla
@HeidiNBC
BREAKING: Supreme Court will consider challenges to affirmative action:

"the most serious threat in decades to the use of affirmative action by the nation's public and private colleges and universities"

https://nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-will-consider-challenges-affirmative-action-harvard-unc-admissions-n1287915… via @nbcnews

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Supreme Court will consider challenges to affirmative action in Harvard, UNC admissions
The Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina, presenting the most serious threat in decades to the use of affirmative action by...
7:52 AM · Jan 24, 2022

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-will-consider-challenges-affirmative-action-harvard-unc-admissions-n1287915

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear challenges to the admissions process at Harvard and University of North Carolina, presenting the most serious threat in decades to the use of affirmative action by the nation's public and private colleges and universities.

Despite similar challenges, the court has repeatedly upheld affirmative action in the past. But two liberal justices who were key to those decisions are gone — Anthony Kennedy and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Their replacements, Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett are conservative and considered less likely to find the practice constitutional.

In the latest case, a group backed by a longtime opponent of affirmative action, Edward Blum of Maine, sued Harvard in federal court, claiming its undergraduate admissions system discriminated against Asian-American students. Lower courts ruled that the school's limited consideration of race was a legitimate effort to achieve a more diverse student body.

The Biden administration last month urged the Supreme Court not to hear the case, arguing the reconsideration of its past decisions would be disruptive for universities that had come to “rely on the permissibility of a holistic, flexible approach like Harvard’s as a benchmark in structuring their own admissions policies.”

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[Itchinjim]

3. Yep.

[mahina]

4. Heritage Foundation evildoers

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What is all that bullshit during their confirmation hearings about stare decisis and settled law again?

[Claire Oh Nette]

9. Those were lies. nt

[LizBeth]

5. Who was it causing the problem in 2016 when we screamed supreme Court?

And they just did not care.

[multigraincracker]

6. Voting rights have become

the new affirmative action that favors the well off and White voters.

[UTUSN]

7. Modifying the Poppy BUSH gimmick

Poppy BUSH (Atwater?) started the trick with Clarence THOMAS of using "minorities" (supposed to be a Dem constituent group) against Dems, putting Dems in a corner of having to attack a "minority" nominee.

KKKarl tweated this by seeding wedge issues to get target groups to vote against their own self-interest.

Here, another tweak, instead of Whites claiming to be discriminated against, using another minority against other minorities.

[spanone]

8. This 'supreme' court will be screwing America years after tfg is dead and gone.

[madville]

10. Asians are already over represented at Ivy League schools

By something like 4 times their actual population, they make up 6% of the US population but something like 25% of Ivy League school enrollment. So they’re claiming they are being discriminated against by being over represented by only that amount lol.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

12. You can be over-represented and still discriminated against.

In fact, the reason Asian Americans face discrimination in situations like this is because they're over-represented to begin with.

[madville]

13. Article I read a year or so ago about this said that

If just academics were used for admissions, Asians would make up 40-45% of enrollment instead of around 25% now. They do have a case that they are being discriminated against based on race. The school’s defense is that federal law allows them to discriminate based on race in admissions.

[uponit7771]

11. Why are they even taking this up again ?! The Roberts court shows over and over again how hackish

... they are

[Sympthsical]

14. Instead of dragging Asian-Americans down, we should be building other groups up

The "model minority" thinking allows for discrimination in opportunity, but somehow it becomes less bad. "It's ok, they'll succeed somewhere else, so I can deny them now."

It's a crap system and needs a rework. I still think an affirmative action scheme should be economic based instead of racial. Under that, you'd still end up with a good amount of diversity because of how economic well-being is currently disproportionately distributed in our country.

All we've ended up with is creating a Squid Game within a minority group. It's not a great system.

[roamer65]

15. I'll be utterly shocked if Roe v Wade isn't overturned.

[Nevilledog]

16. It will be. No doubt in my mind.

[roamer65]

17. I think the courts refusal to hear an appeal on the TX law the other day signaled it.

Why rule on something they will deem as legal soon?

[Nevilledog]

18. Yeah. Sotomayor called them out on this in her dissent.