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The Death By 1000 Cuts: How the Failure of Prop. 16 Will Kill Affirmative Action


March 3, 2021 at 9:00 am by Nathan Lee
During the 2020 election, California rejected Proposition 16, a proposition that would reinstate previously banned affirmative action based on factors like race, sex and national origin. This proposition failed by a huge margin despite the disproportionate funding effort to support Prop. 16 and the support of the Democratic party demonstrated by various endorsements from prominent state and federal elected officials in California including Governor Gavin Newsom and Vice President Kamala Harris. 
For decades, the policy of affirmative action has been challenged many times in the Supreme Court. Its conservative members have slowly narrowed the reach and scope of affirmative action for universities, private or public, making the practice harder to use and less reasonable for the public. Ultimately, this failure to instate affirmative action in one of the most liberal states could weaken the ability of the liberal bloc of the ....

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New Administration Won't Pursue Yale on Admissions Bias – Courthouse News Service


It isn’t a whole new world in 2021, but Yale University learned Wednesday that it will no longer face discriminating charges from the U.S. Department of Justice. 
This photo of Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, was taken by Sidney L. Smith in 1882. It was gifted by Olin Dows to the Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. (Image via Courthouse News courtesy of the Smithsonian)
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CN)  Just four months after it accused Yale of discriminating against white and Asian students seeking enrollment in its undergraduate programs, the Justice Department quietly abandoned the case Wednesday. ....

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