The Senate Monday voted 53-47 to discharge Jackson's nomination from the Judiciary Committee after the committee deadlocked 11-11 along party lines on Jackson's nomination. Murkowski, Romney and Collins delivered three GOP affirmative votes in what will likely be touted by the White House as a ...
Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, left, receives congratulations from fellow Assembly members Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, center, and Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, after the Assembly approved her measure to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot to let voters decide if the sta...
Claims have their origin in the affirmative. “This is X.” “Grass is green.” Not “Grass isn’t blue.” When one makes a claim (of any sort), he or she is stating that an action happened (i.e. Person A is a graduate of XYZ School. or more seriously Person A committed a ...
At the same time, Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh have been in the majority of conservative-driven decisions that overturned the five-decade-old constitutional right to abortion, expanded gun rights and struck down affirmative action in college admissions. PREVI...
Surely, voters in the “new” California were ready to repeal the affirmative action ban. Nope. It is going down to defeat. The vote against Proposition 16 is despite the fact that the proposition was worded in a way to hide the proposed return of affirmative action. It was entitled simply...
1.19 of the white paper reintroduces ‘before it is concluded’. This may be carelessness, but the two phrases could mean very different things. Parliament now needs urgently to clarify with the government when exactly in the process it plans to put any final Brexit deal to the vote....
That’s the perspective of Anthony P. Carnevale, director of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Carnevale is an authority on affirmative action in higher education and an economist. He says society can’t have diversity without disruption and that scholars know from re...
Specifically, people will change their attitudes when people around them have different thoughts and feelings about a topic, such as same-sex marriages, affirmative action, and climate change. The same could be said for political views.What naysayers must know is that Fox News isn’t always ...
The chamber approved the resolution in a 53-47 vote in which Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz.;Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio;Jon Tester, D-Mont.; and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., joined every Republican voting in the affirmative. The bill was introduced in February by Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N...
the record of race-conscious affirmative action is underwhelming. According toDavid Leonhardtof The New York Times, “low-income students, controlling for race, receive either no preference or a modest one, depending on which study you believe.” In other words,affirmative action is now another ...