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Supreme Court takes America backwards in striking down race in college admissions

Simply declaring that schools should now be color-blind won’t make it real — or fair. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote as much in a separate dissent, “[D]eeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

Chicago Sun-Times

A 2003 Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action planted the seeds of its overturning, as justices then and now thought racism an easily solved problem

In an anticipated but nonetheless stunning decision expected to have widespread implications on college campuses and workplaces across the country, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, outlawed affirmative action programs that were designed to correct centuries of racist disenfranchisement in higher education.

The Conversation

In the Supreme Court chamber, the subject was race, the mood was somber, the criticism harsh

Chief Justice John Roberts delivered Thursday's Supreme Court ruling striking down race-based admissions in higher education

The Independent UK

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Thoughts on the Supreme Court's Ruling in the Harvard and UNC Racial Preferences Cases

A preliminary assessment of today's decisions. The majority rightly struck a blow against the use of racial preferences for purposes of advancing "diversity" in education. But there are some flaws in its reasoning.

Reason

Supreme Court strikes down race-based affirmative action in college admissions

WASHINGTON — In another major reversal, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action policies at colleges and universities that use race as a factor in deciding who is admitted.

Los Angeles Times

Key quotes from Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling: No to race, yes to discrimination victims

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s opinion about affirmative action rejects the use of race as an admissions factor at colleges and universities.

Los Angeles Times

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson delivers searing civil rights lesson in dissent to affirmative action ruling

Her rebuke condemns conservative majority’s ‘let-them-eat-cake obliviousness’ to legacy of racism

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Joe Biden slams Supreme Court in fiery speech dispelling myths about affirmative action

America's colleges and universities can no longer weigh race and gender when considering a student's eligibility for enrollment after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action on Thursday

Daily Mirror

KBJ torches affirmative action ruling

The “visibly angry” justice said Thomas “ignites too many straw men to list”

Salon

Affirmative action in universities officially ENDED by Supreme Court in landmark decision

The landmark decision overturns long-standing precedent that has benefitted Black and Latino students in higher education

Daily Mirror

Supreme Court limits use of race in college admissions decisions - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Thursday restricted how colleges can use race in admissions decisions, in a decision that struck down two programs.

Roll Call

Supreme Court upholds criminal provision on inducing immigration - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a provision under federal criminal law aimed at punishing people who encourage illegal immigration.

Roll Call

Chief Justice John Roberts on track to write 2nd-fewest opinions in 2022-2023 term

United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has authored two of the 36 opinions for the 2022-2023 term as of June 16, 2023, which is the fewest authored opinions of all justices. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett have authored five, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Ketanji Brown…

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A Troubling Supreme Court Habeas Decision

The Supreme Court was wrong to deny relief to a man imprisoned for activity that Court's own rulings indicate was not illegal - one who never had an opportunity to challenge his incarceration on that basis.

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KBJ: A lone SCOTUS dissenter brings hope

Justice Jackson’s early impact has been deeply felt through biting dissents and cross-partisan judicial coalitions

Roll Call

Supreme Court preserves Medicaid recipients' right to sue - Roll Call

Hospital argued Medicaid patients can't sue because they are third parties in a contract between the state and the federal government.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules in favor of Black voters in Alabama redistricting case

The Supreme Court has issued a surprising ruling in favor of Black voters in a congressional redistricting case, ordering the creation of a second district with a large Black population

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Supreme Court justices, minus Thomas, and Alito, file financial disclosure reports

Justice Clarence Thomas' disclosure form had been eagerly awaited in the wake of news reports that he accepted luxury trips worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

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The Independent UK

Justice Jackson reports flowers from Oprah, designer clothing as Thomas delays filing disclosure

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has disclosed that she received a $1,200 congratulatory floral display from Oprah Winfrey and $6,580 in designer clothing for a magazine photo shoot in her first months as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court

The Guardian - US

US supreme court ruling makes it easier for companies to sue striking workers

Ketanji Brown Jackson is sole dissenter as court sides with Washington state concrete firm in ruling seen as blow to unions

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules against union in labor dispute involving truck drivers and wet concrete

The Supreme Court has ruled against unionized drivers who walked off the job with their trucks full of wet concrete

Roll Call

Supreme Court sides with concrete company in union case - Roll Call

The Supreme Court on Thursday revived a Washington concrete company’s state court lawsuit over alleged damages from a drivers’ strike.

Roll Call

Supreme Court narrows Clean Water Act protections - Roll Call

The Supreme Court narrowed the protections of the Clean Water Act to wetlands and other bodies of water directly connected to federal waters;

The Independent UK

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson tells law students 'Survivor' offers helpful lessons

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says she's a “Survivor superfan” and in a commencement address in Washington offered graduating law school students lessons from the reality TV show

The Independent UK

SCOTUS makes landmark decision recognising transgender person’s pronouns

US Supreme Court uses correct pronouns for transgender migrant in recent opinion

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