https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/24/politics/supreme-court-harvard-unc-affirmative-action/index.htmlWhen Joe Biden took office, one of his early action was to suspend the AG's legal push to end discrimination in applications at colleges, particularly against asians but also whites.
This was initiated under Trump, with revelations like how Harvard was directly weighting point scores on SAT/ACTs based on race, -250 for asians
Now despite Biden's efforts to quash it, the privately brought case by Students for Fair Admissions, which initiated their lawsuit in 2014, has finally reached the supreme court who agreed to hear arguments in the october 2022 docket, decision likely by june 2023 - over the objections of Biden's DoJ who argued the high court should let it pass.
Give the 6-3 split in the supreme court and the fact John Roberts has already repeatedly sided against institutionalized discrimination, especially direct racial weighting in education, makes it very likely to get struck down and the lower courts reversed, unless SCOTUS dodges on technical grounds. Could be a 6-3 or 7-2, I mean you sure know which way Clarence Thomas will go lmao
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Justice Thomas, with whom Justice Scalia joins as to Parts I—VII, concurring in part and dissenting in part.
Frederick Douglass, speaking to a group of abolitionists almost 140 years ago, delivered a message lost on today’s majority:
“n regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us… . I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm-eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! … And if the negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! … [Y]our interference is doing him positive injury.” What the Black Man Wants: An Address Delivered in Boston, Massachusetts, on 26 January 1865, reprinted in 4 The Frederick Douglass Papers 59, 68 (J. Blassingame & J. McKivigan eds. 1991) (emphasis in original).