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Opposition to affirmative action emerged in the neoconservative journal The Public Interest, particularly with editor Nathan Glazer's book Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy (1975). [24] In the Roberts Court, Chief Justice John Roberts questioned the benefits of diversity in a physics class in Fisher II. [25]
Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions.The Court held that a student admissions process that favors "underrepresented minority groups" did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause so long as it took into account other factors evaluated on an individual ...
The modern history begins in 1961 when President John F. Kennedy in 1961 issued Executive Order 10925, which required government contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin."
The Supreme Court decided two cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions, a group headed by Edward Blum, a conservative legal strategist who has spent years fighting affirmative action. One ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is hearing two major cases that could determine the future of race-based affirmative action in higher education across America. While 40 years of legal precedent ...
What are the affirmative action cases being decided? ... The number of Black Americans who oppose color-blind policies has risen since the February 2022 poll by Yahoo News/YouGov, from 29% then to ...
Gratz v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 244 (2003), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the University of Michigan undergraduate affirmative action admissions policy. In a 6–3 decision announced on June 23, 2003, Chief Justice Rehnquist, writing for the Court, ruled the University's point system's "predetermined point allocations" that awarded 20 points towards admission to ...
The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday, hearing arguments for the first time after a summer break and with The post Affirmative action, voting rights headline Supreme Court’s cases for new ...