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...
We now understand how post-affirmative action could affect the integrity of university leaders. We now know more about (1) leaders' perspectives post-SCOTUS ruling, (2) leaders' influences on the educational culture, and (3) the effects that leaders' integrity could have afte...
At the same time, since the Supreme Court’s 1978 ruling, affirmative action has suffered a series of branding setbacks. While most of the voting public continues to support affirmative action in some form, it has also been weaponized by both sides of the political spectrum as a defining ideo...
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...
On the issue of abortion -- key for many conservatives -- Kavanaugh dissented from a recent ruling requiring an undocumented immigrant minor who wanted an abortion to be granted access to one. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appealsoverturnedthe decision by a three-judge panel...
In response to the Supreme Court ruling, the university said in a statement that it will continue to consider race in admissions via “an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life.” “We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching...
“judicial activism,” which they define as judicial rulings based on the judge’s ideology instead of precedent and statutory law. However, one soon understands by paying attention to to the Right that the real definition of “judicial activism” is “any judicial opinion that doesn’t align ...
Rulings in the most contentious and high-profile cases ran counter topublic opinionand may be driving an erosion in public faith in the court itself, some experts say. Confidence in the justices was already at a historic low when the term began and has slumped even lower,...
In Boumediene, the Supreme Court was able to resolve the Suspension Clause issue without ruling on the appropriate definition of enemy combatant, and that issue has not been fully briefed here, either. Hence, this Court will not, at this time, resolve the issue. But accepting respondents' ...
Knolls timely appealed these rulings to the Court of Appeals. In a unanimous decision, a new panel of the Second Circuit reversed the Magistrate's decision on waiver, and vacated the judgment of the - 26 - district court, finding that this Court's opinion and mandate in Meacharn precluded...