#Justice Jackson rips Supreme Court’s ‘ostrich-like’ logic on affirmative action 

#Justice Jackson rips Supreme Court’s ‘ostrich-like’ logic on affirmative action 

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson blasted the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action Thursday, warning that its decision “makes things worse, not better” for race relations. “The best that can be said of the majority’s perspective is that it proceeds (ostrich-like) from the hope that preventing consideration of race will end racism,” Jackson wrote in a dissenting…

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#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

#Supreme Court hands down blow to college affirmative action

The Supreme Court severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used to select students from their applicant pools. The court’s six conservative justices invalidated Harvard’s and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) admissions policies by ruling they did not comply…

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#Five Supreme Court decisions to watch

#Five Supreme Court decisions to watch

The Supreme Court is set to release its next opinions on Tuesday morning, with several landmark cases still to be handed down with just days left until the summer recess. The court did not indicate Tuesday will be the final decision day, meaning that at least one additional day is likely later in the week….

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