“I am a proud beneficiary of affirmative action programs, which came about through struggle and sacrifice of Black and white civil rights activists,” columnist Charles Dumas writes.
diverse student body serves values beyond race alone, including enhanced classroom dialogue, and the lessening of racial isolation and stereotypes. but conservatives, well, they went back to the drawing board, continue shopping for the perfect plaintiffs, and we return to the court this past past term, with two cases, students for fair admissions versus harvard college, and students for fear admissions versus the university of north carolina. by the way, that group named in both of those cases, students for fair admissions, well it s a right-wing activist group. it s lawyers argued that admissions programs at harvard and u.n.c. violated the equal protection clause at the 14th amendment, by discriminating against asian american applicants and in providing favorable treatments to students from other minority background. and finally, john roberts and
board, continued shopping for the perfect plaintiffs, and returned to the court with this past term, with two cases, students for fair admissions versus harvard college, and students for fair admissions versus the university of north carolina. by the way, that group named in both of those cases, students for fair admissions, well, it s a right-wing activist group. it s lawyers argued that admissions programs at harvard and unc violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment, by discriminating against asian american applicants and providing favorable treatments to students from other minority background. and finally, john roberts and his extreme colleagues said enough. deciding to end affirmative action as we know it. so, this try and try again mentality, honestly, it s not going anywhere. as we said earlier, those of us who breathe a sigh of relief after the supreme court did not end american democracy this past week with the moore versus harper ruling, well they shouldn t r
the supreme court wrapped up its turn by rolling out a series of blockbuster decisions. the super conservative 63 majority getting camp formative action and higher education, really at the race conscious admissions programs at harvard the university of north carolina violate the 14th amendment s equal protection clause. justice ketanji brown jackson did not mince words on her dissent, saying quote, deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. and it s a back for lgbtq+ rights, conservative justices also ruled that they allow a colorado website design or to refuse service for a same-sex couple. and a long awaited decision, score struck down president biden s plan to forgive more than 400 billion dollars in student that. in response, biden asked new initiatives to protect student loan borrowers, including a different path for debt relief through the higher education act. the plan allows education
kind of racial preference, as you might call it. and clarence thomas is a conservative on the court, he s long been against such approaches to the law and ketanji brown jackson has a completely different approach to that. and so, that was at the core of the affirmative action cases they struck down the admissions programs at those colleges. but then the two other cases kind of was not exactly the same legal argument, but it was about conservative efforts to push it kind of race neutral version of the law, which it seemed like would get a good reception at the supreme court with his conservative majority. but, in fact, those cases did not go that way. the court rejected an attempt to further weaken the voting rights act that prevents minority voters by adopting an argument that would limit the consideration of race in those kind of cases, and be distracting. then the court also turned away a challenge to the indian child welfare act, which includes a provision that conservatives have sa