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“I am a proud beneficiary of affirmative action programs, which came about through struggle and sacrifice of Black and white civil rights activists,” columnist Charles Dumas writes.

Diverse student body serves values beyond race alone, including enhanced classroom dialogue, and the lessening of racial isolation and stereotypes. -- but conservatives, well, they went back to the drawing board, continue shopping for the perfect plaintiffs, and we return to the court this past past term, with two cases, students for fair admissions versus harvard college, and students for fear admissions versus the university of north carolina. by the way, that group named in both of those case...

The supreme court wrapped up its turn by rolling out a series of blockbuster decisions. the super conservative 63 majority getting camp formative action and higher education, really at the race conscious admissions programs at harvard the university of north carolina violate the 14th amendments equal protection clause. justice ketanji brown jackson did not mince words on her dissent, saying quote, deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. and its a back for lgbtq+ rights, conse...

Kind of racial preference, as you might call it. and clarence thomas is a conservative on the court, hes long been against such approaches to the law and ketanji brown jackson has a completely different approach to that. and so, that was at the core of the affirmative action cases they struck down the admissions programs at those colleges. but then the two other cases kind of was not exactly the same legal argument, but it was about conservative efforts to push it kind of race neutral version of...

Wrecked reconciled with the equal protection grounds. they like sufficiently focused a measurable objectives were entering the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, and of racial stereotyping, a lack of meaningful and points. we have ever permitted admissions programs to work in that way. and we will not do so today. in a fiery dissent, the core courts new justice ketanji brown jackson called the ruling a tragedy for us all. we will let them eat cake obliviousness the majori...

Of the court. >> the u.s. supreme court today ended its 2007 term with a history making ruling. the court made it much tougher for school districts to control the mix of children in american classrooms based on race. the court said deciding on a student body in that way is not allowed under the constitution. >> so they try to 2007 and they tried again in 2013 and then again in 2014. but today they succeeded. roberts and thomas, joined by the courts for other conservative justices voted to strike...

Admissions programs to work in that way. and we will not do so today. in a fiery dissent, the core courts new justice ketanji brown jackson called the ruling a tragedy for us all. we will let them eat cake obliviousness the majority pulls the record and announces color blindness for all by legal fiat. but deeming race irrelevant to law does not make it so in life. and the colleges of this country are required to ignore a thing that matters, it will not just go away. it will take longer for racis...

The court said deciding on a student body in that way is not allowed under the constitution. >> so they try to 2007 and they tried again in 2013 and then again in 2014. but today they succeeded. roberts and thomas, joined by the courts for other conservative justices voted to strike down race conscious admissions. in a 6:33 ruling they found race conscious admissions programs at harvard irony university of north carolina they found them unconstitutional. in violation of the >> delivering the maj...

Content of their character and on their own achievement and leave race out of the consideration of admissions to hirer education. >> well have it all covered over the next two hours of "chris jansing reports." so lets go ahead and dig in to this landmark decision. chief justice john roberts writing the majority opinion here today saying the admissions programs lack sufficiently focussed and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, and that whoever well intentioned and implemented in goo...

America, to say that anyone is now victimized if a college considers whether that legacy of discrimination has unequally advantaged its applicant fails to acknowledges the inequality that still plagues our citizenry. it is that inequality that admissions programs help to address to the benefit of all of us. the majoritys judgment stunts that progress without any basis in law, history, logic, or justice. i dissent. that was justice jackson, again, dissenting specifically in the unc case. she abst...