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Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge to affirmative action in higher education
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:46 am
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:46 am
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge to the use of race in college admissions decisions, teeing up a potentially landmark showdown over affirmative action in higher education.
The case arose after a conservative-backed group, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), sued Harvard and the University of North Carolina, alleging the schools illegally discriminate against Asian American applicants.
The court’s announcement came in a brief order without noted comment or dissent. The cases, which have been consolidated, are expected to be heard during the court’s next term, which begins next fall.
The move rebuffed the Biden administration, which last month had asked the justices to turn away the challenge to Harvard University, arguing that the school’s admissions practices were lawful.
Harvard, in court papers, denied that its policy is discriminatory. The school accused SFFA of a brazen attempt to upend decades of precedent allowing schools to promote on-campus diversity by considering the racial makeup of their student bodies.
“Having failed to make the case that Harvard’s admissions practices contravene the court’s precedents governing the use of race in admissions, SFFA asks the court to overthrow them,” Harvard wrote in a filing last May. “But SFFA offers no legitimate justification for such an extraordinary step.”
SFFA alleges that Asian American applicants are held to a higher academic standard than other students. The group argues that Asian Americans are disadvantaged in the application process due to receiving lower "personal ratings" and are admitted at a lower rate than white applicants despite having higher test scores on average.
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Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:49 am to jatilen
There is no legitimate precedent for allowing colleges to use raced based discrimination for college entrance. Can't believe the court allowed this to stand the last time. It's gross and illegal and violates equal protection.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:51 am to jatilen
Really really interested to see what Roberts does here. We know how Breyer, Sotamayor, Kagan, Thomas, Alito, and to a lesser extent Gorsuch are likely to vote on this.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:51 am to jatilen
Anyone want to bet on how Sotomayor willl rule?
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:53 am to squid_hunt
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There is no legitimate precedent for allowing colleges to use raced based discrimination for college entrance. Can't believe the court allowed this to stand the last time. It's gross and illegal and violates equal protection.
The progressive mantra:
Judge a man by everything but his character.
Character and effort and work ethic don’t matter. All that matters and all you are judged on is the random meaningless traits they assign importance to such as skin color and sexual identity.
We have killed God and universal truth and the pursuit of happiness and striving for excellence in our society and replaced it with moral relativism and the hatred of excellence and a race to the bottom.
It’s going to get worse before it gets any better
This post was edited on 1/24/22 at 9:55 am
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:53 am to jatilen
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promote on-campus diversity by considering the racial makeup of their student bodies.
AKA legal racism.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:53 am to jatilen
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SFFA alleges that Asian American applicants are held to a higher academic standard than other students. The group argues that Asian Americans are disadvantaged in the application process due to receiving lower "personal ratings" and are admitted at a lower rate than white applicants despite having higher test scores on average.
Will this case also address the opposite end of the aisle where particular races have extra advantages over white applicants despite having lower test scores on average?
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:54 am to jatilen
Sounds like an opportunity to #StopAsianHate
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:54 am to MikeBRLA
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Anyone want to bet on how Sotomayor willl rule?
She’s the affirmative action appointment to the court. Just an absolute moron.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:55 am to Nguyener
Agree, 100% Nguyener. The best thing about humanism is that I get to be God.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:55 am to jatilen
Whats funny is the double standard. Change the races around a little and see how fast they stop it....
Posted on 1/24/22 at 9:56 am to jatilen
How much more time and money do we have to waste on this issue that is so incredibly discriminatory it would take an imbecile not to realize. Under a different administration, these institutions would get all of their federal funding yanked until they revert to merit and merit only.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 10:05 am to jatilen
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Harvard, in court papers, denied that its policy is discriminatory. The school accused SFFA of a brazen attempt to upend decades of precedent allowing schools to promote on-campus diversity by considering the racial makeup of their student bodies.
So they denied the policy is discriminatory by admitting that they are being discriminatory? That's a bold strategy cotton.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 10:09 am to CoachChappy
Their arguments are so poorly thought out it's absolutely laughable, and proof of the imbecility caused by 'diversity.'
Posted on 1/24/22 at 10:38 am to jatilen
John Roberts is going to have a hard time pleasing his leftist overlords with this one. Before he became compromised he went on the record...
Let's see if he does a magical reversal now that the left has their blackmail material.
Let's see if he does a magical reversal now that the left has their blackmail material.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 10:48 am to squid_hunt
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There is no legitimate precedent for allowing colleges to use raced based discrimination for college entrance.
This is why they came up with the bullsh!t "justification" of "diversity."
In 2003, Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the Michigan cases in which she basically said that affirmative action would be "Constitutional" for another 25 years. After that, it would have to end.
So, the left came up with this bullsh!t of diversity claiming that discrimination is okay because it provides a better learning experience for students. Of course, anyone can easily show that colleges and grad schools have been adhering to the same quotas since quotas were ruled unconstitutional by Bakke in the early 70s.
And, when you look at classes like Harvard and Yale, there really is no diversity. The blacks that go to Harvard and Yale are NOT the project blacks that "might" provide "diversity." The vast majority of them come from privileged families but who have been taught from Day 1 that they were some sort of disadvantaged minority just because of their skin tone. The closest most of them have to come to the projects is when they ride in their limousines on the way to their $50K/year private prep school.
And the left justifies this garbage while at the same time telling us how evil "stereotyping" is. At its core, all quotas/affirmative action/diversity is based on racist stereotyping. And, then, all of these leftist academics go around patting themselves on the back telling themselves what a great job their doing for minorities while never really EVER having to deal with a true disadvantaged minority.
Of course, this whole diversity bullsh!t was taken from one "throwaway" line in Bakke about having a more well-rounded class, e.g., having people from different geographic regions, having people who grew up on farms, etc.
The left just took that to mean that they would keep the quotas and just call them something else. It was the ultimate in putting the fox in charge of the hen house.
This post was edited on 1/24/22 at 10:53 am
Posted on 1/24/22 at 10:51 am to MMauler
But there is also this on-the-record material. What a disappointment this man is!
Posted on 1/24/22 at 11:05 am to MMauler
Asians & Whites will dominant universities of higher learning . Blacks and Hispanics will make up about three percent of the enrollment if this takes place. Five Billion Asians in the world .The myth for years affirmative action is a crutch you are less qualified, your slow, you don't deserve . The Universities are funded by the public sector meaning the Federal Government this will be segregation. The same applies to grade school children you cannot have highty nine percent of a one color student body. This case should be thrown out period.
Posted on 1/24/22 at 11:09 am to jatilen
They've punted on this several times over the years. Sounds like they might actually have the votes now

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