SCOTUS And Affirmative Action: Who Is Abigail Fisher?Michel Martin
SCOTUS decisions on Affirmative Action & Student Debt disproportionately impact Black Americans05:42 Share this - Copied The Supreme Court upended decades of precedent and progress this week through several rulings. Starting with binging an end to affirmative action. The...
Ernest Owens argues that the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action didn't do a anything to promote the meritocracy and in reality undermines it
Supreme Court today agreed to take up a case challenging the University of Texas at Austin’s affirmative action program which allows race to be taken into account on freshmen admissions.College student Abigail Fisher claims she was denied admission in 2008 because she is white and argues the uni...
Cases:Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action Recommended Citation:Lyle Denniston,Opinion analysis: Affirmative action — up to the voters,SCOTUSblog(Apr. 22, 2014, 3:45 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/opinion-analysis-affirmative-action-up-to-the-voters/...
Professor Rachel F. Moran discusses affirmative action in higher education, the two cases set to go before SCOTUS, and the impact these decisions could have on college admissions and affirmative action. Discover insightful episodes on Legal Talk Network'
"The bottom line is that the SCOTUS decision on affirmative action has no legal effect on workplace law. Hiring and firing decisions cannot be impacted by protected traits, period. This has been the case for a long time," Laura Mattiacci, the lawyer who represented Shannon Phillips, the for...
Affirmative action appears in jeopardy after marathon arguments. SCOTUSblog. By: History.com Editors HISTORY.com works with a wide range of writers and editors to create accurate and informative content. All articles are regularly reviewed and updated by the HISTORY.com team. Articles with the “...
Chief Justice John Roberts attempted to sidestep the difference between these two ideas when he proclaimedduring a 2007 casethat “the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” Why we need affirmative action ...
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezsaid: “If SCOTUS was serious about their ludicrous ‘colorblindness’ claims, they would have abolished legacy admissions, aka affirmative action for the privileged. 70% of Harvard’s legacy applicants are White. SCOTUS didn’t touch that - which would have...