A preliminary assessment of today's decisions. The majority rightly struck a blow against the use of racial preferences for purposes of advancing "diversity" in education. But there are some flaws in its reasoning.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court ruled that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment.
Affirmative action becomes harder to defend when it entails discrimination against a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups.
The decision sets a dangerous precedent licensing the use of facially neutral policies to discriminate against minorities in various contexts.
Britain’s parliamentary democracy still transcends its monarchy.
My brief rejoinder to his response to my earlier post on this subject.
This piece is his response to my post criticizing of an article he wrote in the City Journal.
Some conservatives are in the awkward position of resisting both policies that reduce the role of race in allocating kidneys for transplant, and those that increase it. The better way to alleviate kidney shortages is to legalize organ markets.
"KCPD has continuously and repeatedly advised Plaintiff and his fellow officers that if they did not fulfill a 'ticket quota' then they would be kicked out of the unit," the complaint states.
This total is 2.5 times the state's annual budget.
"If I disagreed or offered another opinion, I was told I had cognitive dissonance," Josh Diemert says.
Douglass is best-known for his role in the abolitionist movement that helped end slavery. But much of his thought is also relevant to contemporary issues.
Plus: The editors field a listener question on college admissions and affirmative action.
A Princeton phsychologist suggests there is little evidence that corporate DEI programs do much to enhance diversity or inclusion.
The authors will join Reason on Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern to discuss the Supreme Court cases alleging unlawful discrimination against Asian Americans by Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
The conservative majority on the Court is highly likely to rule against the two schools' use of racial preferences in admissions. But there are several different ways it could do so, which have different implications for future cases.
Do First Amendment claims about racial preferences hold water?
but because here the employer's (and union's) actions were basically just an incident of public criticism, they didn't qualify as hostile environment harassment (and the employee wasn't fired or demoted).
Critics allege, with some justice, that the Biden Administration is treating the former more favorably than the latter. If so, the right solution is to increase openness to Afghans and others fleeing war and repression, not bar more Ukrainians.
In a forceful concurring opinion, he argues the Supreme Court should overrule longstanding precedents denying many constitutional rights to residents of Puerto Rico and other "unincorporated" US territories. Gorsuch is absolutely right. But he would do well to cast the same critical gaze on the very similar precedents that exempt immigration restrictions from normal constitutional scrutiny.
interpreting "tend to" as reflecting the "statistics" about racial disparities in committing violent crimes.
The stay may signal that the federal appellate court will ultimately uphold the school's policy.
The school board is fighting a federal judge’s ruling against a new admissions policy at Virginia's elite Thomas Jefferson High School.
Recordings of recent interviews on these topics with T.J. O'Hara for the Deconstructed podcast, and Areva Martin on her talk show program, Special Report.
At her confirmation hearing for her current position on the court of appeals, KBJ testified that "race would be the kind of thing that would be inappropriate to inject in my evaluation of a case."
The new admissions policy at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology did not explicitly discriminate based on race. But the court found it was intended to reduce the number of Asian students admitted, in order to increase the percentage of students from other groups.
It all started with a stolen PlayStation 5.
This approach would avoid many of the flaws of traditional racial preferences. But it has some downsides of its own.
I argue the justices should crack down on the dubious "diversity" rationale for racial preferences, and curb discrimination against Asian-American applicants.
The article explains key issues in the case, and outlines what I think the Court should do.
One involves racial preferences at Harvard, the other at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Her support for racially discriminatory immigration policies is just the tip of a much broader iceberg of conservative support for discrimination in immigration policy of a kind they would reject in other contexts.
A rich non-white patient would be given priority over a poor white patient with precisely the same age and health conditions.
Sick non-Hispanic whites can only get oral antivirals if they have a medical condition or unspecified "other factors that increase their risk for severe illness"; sick "[n]on-white[s]" and "Hispanic[s]" don't face such a requirement.
A white administrator is claiming she was fired based on her race, and based on her complaints that her department chair said "I despise white people" and various other things.
People are increasingly tolerant of racial differences.
How about communities of pallor? Looks like they'll have to figure out that they should claim "increased risk due to social inequity."
Constitution Day is a good time to consider the issue of whether we have been overly accepting of some horrendous Supreme Court precedents. The Chinese Exclusion Case of 1889 is a great example.
The report from the attorney general's office also found that Aurora paramedics used ketamine illegally to treat "excited delirium."
Each major party portrays the other as a deadly threat to democracy.
The Senate majority leader's racial rhetoric and overly prescriptive approach make an already iffy effort even more quixotic.
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