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Last week, I sat down and read the Supreme Court’s ruling in Students for Fair Admissions, the landmark case that overturned many affirmative action policies at the nation’s elite universities. The case has generated significant outrage. The right was outraged that Harvard wants to use (and did use) race as a factor in its admissions […]
Universities can continue to target recruitment efforts at predominantly Black and Hispanic high schools even if race can’t be used as a factor in admissions, the Biden administration said in new guidance released Monday. The parsing is part of a package of materials responding to the June U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning affirmative action in […]
>> very exciting weekend. willie, very timely weekend, as well, given the news yesterday out of the supreme court. yeah, let's start this hour with those landmark decisions from the supreme court, ending race-based affirmative action in college admissions. the court ruled programs at the university of north carolina and at harvard violate the equal protection clause of the constitution. the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian-american students. the vote was 6-3 in the north carolina case with three of the ...
Of takes it back and says, "but colleges are not allowed to do, through essays, what we forbid them to do through other means." it is very unclear, how the court is going to react if colleges go to root. >> colleges left to grapple with all this. we'll come back. msnbc legal analyst joyce vance, thank you so much, as always. ahead on "morning joe," yesterday's ruling on affirmative action programs not the only major decision handed down by the supreme court yesterday. we will go over the high court's opinion that makes it easier for employees to seek religious accommodation at work and look ...
Two quick observations about this ruling. number one, when we talk about harvard and unc and these very selective schools, we're talking about choosing a freshman class from a huge pool of qualified applicants. harvard could assemble a perfectly fine, all white freshmen class or all asian freshmen class or all black freshmen class from the pool of qualified applicants. we're not talking about giving a place at harvard to somebody who is not qualified to be there. that's one point. the second point is about justice roberts sort of leaving the door open a crack and saying, well, nothing prohibit...