#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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#Clarence Thomas biographer calls report on megadonor’s tuition payments ‘despicable’

#Clarence Thomas biographer calls report on megadonor’s tuition payments ‘despicable’

A biographer and friend of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas slammed reporting of a GOP megadonor’s tuition payments for the justice’s great-nephew as “despicable,” arguing that it did not violate the court’s gift disclosure rules.  Mark Paoletta, a former counsel to former Vice President Pence who co-edited a book about Thomas based on a documentary,…

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#GOP megadonor covered tuition for child Clarence Thomas was raising ‘as a son’: report

#GOP megadonor covered tuition for child Clarence Thomas was raising ‘as a son’: report

Billionaire and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow paid for the private school tuition of Justice Clarence Thomas’s great-nephew, whom the justice said he raised “as a son,” according to reporting by ProPublica. Thomas’s relative, Mark Martin, attended boarding schools Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia as well as Randolph-Macon Academy in Virginia. Tuition at Hidden Lake was…

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