Is affirmative action destined, like Prohibition, to become a "noble experiment" that failed? Republicans knowing a popular issue are ready to scrap it. Even the White House, formerly a bastion of ...
In a 2015 interview, before he was president, Donald Trump said he was "fine" with affirmative action. Later, when Trump was president, his administration took actions seeking to leverage federal ...
In 2015 Edward Blum, the conservative activist behind the push to end affirmative action, stood in front of a group of a dozen or so mostly Chinese Americans in a conference room in Houston. He was ...
On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court "severely limited, if not effectively ended, the use of affirmative action in college admissions," as described by Amy Howe at SCOTUS Blog: By a vote of 6-3, the ...
My article Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action has finally been published by the Florida Law Review. In these days of federal attacks on private DEI, ...
People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from ...
Race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions could soon be a thing of the past. At least that’s the impression many observers got after listening to oral arguments about the practice before ...
Mr. Bokat-Lindell is a staff editor. This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. In 2003, the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor cast the ...
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