3 Supreme Court Cases to Watch in Fall 2015
What's at stake in the new SCOTUS term.
India's upper-caste protests show that the scenario is not so bizarre.
India's upper-caste quota wars suggest that racial quotas for whites are not so far fetched
Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin is headed back to SCOTUS.
Pending court cases pertaining to race-based legislation.
How productive could a pro-diversity event be if it was not itself diverse?
Clearly all people contribute to diversity in one way or another.
It's very difficult for low-income 13-year-olds to cobble together appealing resumes.
Opponents of affirmative action were unfazed by the ruling.
YAL has agreed to drop its lawsuit in exchange for administrators revising the policy.
Sotomayor thinks legacy admissions are somehow helping the disadvantaged, when in reality they do the opposite.
The Supreme Court and the court of public opinion are both shifting against race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
Democrats are pitting African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos against each other.
But there are better ways for progressives to advance racial justice
Affirmative action supporters argue they should be free to establish the policy by amending state constitutions, but those who reject it should not.
Prop. 209 would have hurt Asian-Americans in the name of diversity.
They will also splinter the Democrats' minority base
The high court prepares to issue big rulings on hot-button issues.
Why the Supreme Court shouldn't overturn Michigan's Prop 2