#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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#Student loan debt: Which way will the Supreme Court go?

#Student loan debt: Which way will the Supreme Court go?

The Supreme Court is set to release its decision on President Biden’s relief of up to $20,000 in student loan debt, with advocates and borrowers widely concerned the justices will strike down the plan. The court holds a strong 6-3 conservative majority that seemed skeptical of the administration’s ability to forgive the debt during oral…

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#Supreme Court hands defeat to North Carolina GOP in election law clash

#Supreme Court hands defeat to North Carolina GOP in election law clash

The Supreme Court on Tuesday in a 6-3 decision rejected a bid to give state legislatures sweeping authority in drawing congressional maps and regulating federal elections, declining to endorse the so-called “independent state legislature” theory. The decision preserves the ability for state courts to hear partisan gerrymandering lawsuits in congressional redistricting and review other federal election…

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