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...
This time around the block with the Supreme Court could be different. The makeup of the high court has changed since that landmark ruling, with conservative justices now in the majority 5-4. Justice Elena Kagan disqualified herself from the case, according to the New York Times, most likely...
justice in practical terms, this group is anathema. If historians still exist in the USA in 100 years, the right-wing extremists of the current Roberts court will be studied and remembered only for their cravenness in perusing their own political ends. Shame on them all. #SCOTUS ...
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...
Kennedy sided with the court's conservatives to rule that the government cannot limit corporate spending in elections under the First Amendment. The ruling, which both conservative and liberal groups have taken advantage of in election cycles since, has certainly made a lasting ...
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...
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...
BENNETT: Yeah, well, maybe so. Did she get into Princeton on affirmative action, one wonders. BARNES: One wonders. Sotomayor was valedictorian of her high school class and went to Princeton on scholarship. I doubt any of these same people called Clarence Thomas an “affirmative action pick,”...
s policies run afoul of the Constitution. It simply rearticulates the strict scrutiny standard as applied to education policy, while still accepting that racial diversity is a value. If the Court reaches out to reconsider that ruling in the next few years, the activism of the Court’s ...