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extraordinary when you read these two columns. you get the impression justice jackson could have read from the boston telephone book and they would have called it a bold new voice. it gets to the point come on, you have to have some semblance of neutrality in this, and it s missing in the coverage. john: what the new york times did say, they did not say she could read from the phone book but from her first week in the supreme court bench in october to the final day of the term that just ended last week, justice ketanji brown jackson did something remarkable for a junior justice, established herself as a distinctive voice on the court. but you claim in a column she also engaged in some pretty fuzzy math when it came to her dissention on the affirmative action ruling, said for high risk black newborns, having a black physician more than doubles the likelihood the baby will live and not die. you say that that s not exactly the case.
undermine the institution? i m howard kurtz9 and this is mediabuzz. muck. howard: these end of the term rulings are fueling heated media reactions on the left and the right. sometimes in quite personal terms as well as from the president. reporter: is this a rogue court? this is not a normal court. impeach the justices, term limit the justices, pack the court. for all the talk of civility and the talk of the restoration of norms, it seems there ises no institution of our republic that won t be destroyed in defense of their democracy. this court has adopted a kind of imperial mindset. six right-wing politicians in robes on trump supreme court are ganting themselves the right to govern as a superlegislature. the court s affirmative
en to the people. that a being said, when you put the affirmative action ruling in the microscope and you say, okay, so if this is true, why not look at this case and say is, hmm, is this really the problem with our admissions system in this country, or is it more so the fact that 40% of harvard s admitting students are folks who are millionaires or billionaires children, and they re a bigger hurdle to equity and admission to the universities howard: i ll come back to that. a few days after the ruling new york times, to its credit, says this really only involves about 10-15,000 black and hispanic applicants because most colleges accept is most applicants. so, but before that the coverage was like this was the apocalypse. no, i certainly think, you know, there s an overreaction on this point because of so much of the dedication of a lot of the significant portion of the left to the ideas that undergird the affirmative action system. but i would point to the analysis of someone who
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) will offer free tuition to certain students following the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action.