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The Liberal Helping Conservatives Fight Race-Based Affirmative Action
For decades, Richard Kahlenberg has pushed for a class-conscious approach to college admissions. He may finally get his wish, but it comes at a person [...]
The Supreme Court discovers that ending affirmative action is hard in the Harvard and UNC cases
The Supreme Court spent an inordinate amount of time on Monday hearing arguments in two cases about affirmative action in university admissions. Vi [...]
Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases: What Happens Next
Rulings in a term’s biggest cases — and these certainly qualify — tend not to arrive until late June, no matter how early in the term they were argued [...]
What Is the History Behind Affirmative Action?
John F. Kennedy was the first president to link the term specifically with a policy meant to advance racial equality
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Which States Have Banned Affirmative Action?
Which States Have Banned Affirmative Action?
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Who Are the Lawyers Arguing Affirmative Action Before the Supreme Court?
Who Are the Lawyers Arguing Affirmative Action Before the Supreme Court?
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How Will College Admissions Change if Affirmative Action is Overturned?
Two “race-neutral alternatives” are frequently proposed: a search for socioeconomic diversity, which is often a proxy for racial and ethnic diversity, [...]
Who Are the Lawyers Arguing Affirmative Action Before the Supreme Court?
A look at the lawyers who are arguing in case.
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Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court affirmative action cases
This week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in two related cases that are likely to drastically transform how admissions officers consider ra [...]
The Supreme Court Banned Affirmative Action at Two Top Colleges. They Say They Need It.
As a Supreme Court case on college admissions nears, the California and Michigan university systems say their efforts to build diverse classes have ha [...]
A Conservative Lawyer’s New Target After Abortion: Affirmative Action
WASHINGTON — Jonathan F. Mitchell, the architect of the law that sharply curtailed abortions in Texas, filed a brief in the Supreme Court the other da [...]
Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Affirmative Action at Harvard and U.N.C.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina a [...]
Supreme Court will hear the Harvard case that could doom affirmative action
The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it will hear Students for Fair Admissions v. President & Fellows of Harvard College and Students for [...]
University of North Carolina Can Keep Affirmative Action, Judge Rules
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may continue using race as a factor in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled on Monday, rej [...]
Supreme Courtroom: The Harvard case that would finish affirmative motion, defined
Final week, a conservative group led by a distinguished skeptic of legal guidelines looking for to remedy racial injustice formally requested th [...]