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Another grave threat to civil rights law is on the doorstep of the Supreme Court, and it has a connection with some of this country’s most notorious white nationalists.
DonorsTrust, the “Dark Money ATM” of the right, has long incubated a legal nonprofit run by an anti-civil rights strategist who is now bringing a new challenge to affirmative action before the Supreme Court. But it appears this internal litigation project is only one side of DonorTrust’s campaign to undermine the protections of civil rights law; recent tax filings reveal the group is also taking a more direct approach by funding racist extremist groups.
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The Big Ten logo is seen on the field before an NCAA college football game between Iowa and Miami of Ohio last year in Iowa City. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
WASHINGTON (CN) Four years after it declined to hear a watershed case on compensating college athletes, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to look at an injunction that lets players rake in unlimited funds, so long as they relate to their studies.
The justices took up the appeal this morning without comment, as is their custom, consolidating separate cases led by former West Virginia running back Shawne Alston.
In its petition for certiorari, the National Collegiate Athletic Association accused the Ninth Circuit of taking Alston’s side based on a presumption it drew “out of thin air:” that the major difference between college and professional athletes is that professionals receive unlimited payments unrelated to education.