#Roberts takes aim at liberal justices in defending Supreme Court’s legitimacy

#Roberts takes aim at liberal justices in defending Supreme Court’s legitimacy

Chief Justice John Roberts’s majority opinion striking down the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan ended with a note taking aim at the court’s liberal justices in defending the Supreme Court’s legitimacy. Justice Elena Kagan authored the liberal justices dissent in the court’s final opinion of the term, delivering a blistering rebuttal to the court striking down…

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#Gen Zers make ‘difficult’ employees, managers say

#Gen Zers make ‘difficult’ employees, managers say

Three-quarters of bosses find Generation Z workers a trifle difficult, a corporate survey has found.  A poll of 1,344 managers and business leaders by ResumeBuilder.com found that 74 percent consider Gen Z employees more challenging than older staffers.   Pressed for specifics, employers did not mince words.  “They think they’re better than you, smarter than you,…

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#Trump looks to reinforce ties to religious right

#Trump looks to reinforce ties to religious right

Former President Donald Trump’s legal problems off the campaign trail and aversion to directly addressing the issue of abortion appear to have done little to damage his support among the religious right. Trump’s appearance at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference last weekend was a reminder to his challengers of his significant…

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#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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