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...
The article presents a reprint of the article "The Future of Race: The Michigan ruling may enliven the debate over affirmative action" which appeared in the June 2014 issue of the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal. It discusses the U.S Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling in case Schuette v...
Affirmative Action supporters and and counter protestors shout at each outside of the Supreme Court of the United States on June 29, 2023, in Washington, D.C. In a 6-3 vote, Supreme Court Justices ruled that race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University ...
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In an unsigned order, the court said it expects the appeals court to issue a fuller decision on the plan “with appropriate dispatch.” The Education Department is seeking to provide a faster path to loan cancellation, and reduce monthly income-based repayments...
A landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1978 – in the case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke – cemented affirmative action policies in college and university admissions for decades and led to an increase in diversity on campuses. ...
Question: You suggest that, consistent with its rulings inBrownandLoving, the Warren Court would have sustained affirmative-action programs in order to help rectify the grave and lasting wrongs of slavery. You write: “Racial classifications do not present a critical constitutional problem unless...
By a vote of six to two (with Justice Elena Kagan not taking part), the Court cleared the way for voters elsewhere in the nation to opt to put an end to so-called “affirmative action” policies — as seven states now do. While the ruling focused on the use of race in selecting ne...
For the first time in his career, Kennedy sided in favor ofaffirmative action in a 2016 casein which the Court rejected a challenge to a race-conscious admissions program at the University of Texas at Austin. The 4-3 decision, in which Kennedy sided with the majority, ...
Last week, the Supreme Court ended affirmative action and declared race can no longer be a factor in college admissions, overturning long-standing programs that have benefitted Black and Latino students. In response to the controversial decision by SCOTUS,Barkley altered his willto ensure the $5...
BARNES: I think you can make the case that she’s one of those who has benefited from affirmative action over the years tremendously. BENNETT: Yeah, well, maybe so. Did she get into Princeton on affirmative action, one wonders. ...