Lundi, 26 Juillet, 2021 - 19:45
The policy has made diversity possible. Now, after decades of debate, the Supreme Court is poised to decide its fate.
The Court may signal that it considers efforts aimed explicitly at racial equity to be unconstitutional.
1. the history
In June, 2016, Justice Samuel Alito took the unusual step of reading aloud from the bench a version of his lengthy dissent in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. A white applicant who had been denied admission had sued, saying that she’d been discriminated against because of her race. The Supreme Court, by the narrowest of margins and on the narrowest of grounds, upheld Texas’s admissions policy. Alito, with steely indignation, picked apart the logic of U.T.’s arguments and of his colleagues’ majority opinion. “This is affirmative action gone berserk,” he declared.
The Stranger s Endorsements for the August 3, 2021, Primary Election
thestranger.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thestranger.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Photo of Chemerinsky by Jim Block.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn t heed calls to resign when law dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote a March 2014 op-ed making that plea.
Now, Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and a frequent ABA Journal contributor, is asking Justice Stephen G. Breyer to retire and pointing to Ginsburg’s failure to do so as instructive.
Ginsburg died about two months before the presidential election last year, but the then-Republican-controlled U.S. Senate quickly confirmed former President Donald Trump’s conservative nominee, the now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
States Must Factor Race In COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization By
Maya Manian and Seema Mohapatra Law360 is providing free access to its coronavirus coverage to make sure all members of the legal community have accurate information in this time of uncertainty and change. Use the form below to sign up for any of our weekly newsletters. Signing up for any of our section newsletters will opt you in to the weekly Coronavirus briefing.
Sign up for our Access to Justice newsletter
You must correct or enter the following before you can sign up:
Email (NOTE: Free email domains not supported)
Primary area of interest
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.