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On February 1, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit partially granted the plaintiffs/appellants’ motion for an injunction pending appeal in Shen v. Simpson,...
The Supreme Court carved out an exception for military academies to continue considering race as a factor in admissions. Right-wing activists aim to end it.
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard that the use of affirmative action in college admissions violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. The decision effectively ended race-conscious admissions programs throughout American higher education.But the justices left one small exception intact in its decision. West Point and other U.S. military academies could keep using race as a factor in admissions, the court said, because they may (or may
The Southern Illinois University medical school was hit with a federal civil rights complaint from the Department of Education for a scholarship that some say violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution.
Seven Former state supreme court justices, including several who were elected or appointed by Republicans, filed a brief urging the Supreme Court to affirm Trump's Colorado disqualification.