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COUNTERPOINT: Americans of every race deserve a fair shot; affirmative action provides one

The Supreme Court recently heard arguments from Harvard and the University of North Carolina about using race and ethnicity in admissions policies. At stake is the fate of affirmative action and the positive effects that race-conscious policies have had on higher education and the workplace for more than 50 years.

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How a Gorsuch LGBT Ruling May Doom Affirmative Action in College Admissions

The link between Bostock v. Clayton County and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina

Reason

Belfast tennis teen Freddy Murray hoping to follow in footsteps of 'hero' Rafael Nadal

The 19-year-old has enrolled on a tennis programme at the University of North Carolina

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National Review's Rich Lowry and Washington Post's Megan McCardle on American Racial Classifications

Lowry: It's not just that colleges and universities discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, and national origin. They do it badly. This is one of the themes that emerged in the oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the Harvard and University of North Carolina affirmative-action cases last week.…

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Editorial: There’s a way forward on campus diversity

Though the oral arguments were contentious, lawyers on both sides of the debate over race-conscious admissions at the University of North Carolina and Harvard and their respective allies on the Supreme Court agreed on something significant Monday: There ought to be a very high bar for allowing colleges to continue…

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Ketanji Brown Jackson grills lawyer in case seeking to end affirmative action

Newest member of US supreme court seems to reject idea that affirmative action in university admissions is unconstitutional

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How the Supreme Court has ruled in the past about affirmative action

Since its first major decision on the subject in 1978, the court has repeatedly upheld universities' ability to consider the race of applicants as one of many factors in admissions decisions.

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Review of Oral Argument in Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina

My Justice-by-Justice breakdown.

Reason

Paxton, Cornyn and Cruz prod U.S. Supreme Court to end affirmative action in college admissions

The high court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases brought by a group led by the same man who previously lost an affirmative action case against the University of Texas at Austin.

The Texas Tribune

U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices raise doubts about using race in college admissions

The high court’s conservatives all expressed doubts about the practice, while the three liberals defended the programs, which are similar to those used by many private and public universities.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Supreme Court Could End Affirmative Action

In the two cases, brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, anti-affirmative action group Students for Fair Admissions argues that race-conscious admissions violate the Civil Rights Act

Reason

Robe & Gavel October 31, 2022: SCOTUS begins November argument sitting

Welcome to the Oct. 31 edition of Robe & Gavel, Ballotpedia’s newsletter about the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and other judicial happenings around the U.S.

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Supreme Court justices battle over race as a factor in college admissions

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court showed deep divides over race-conscious university admissions while questioning lawyers in cases that could transform college campuses and overturn decades-old precedents.

Tribune News Service

Affirmative action under threat as high court hears UNC case

The University of North Carolina was once a bastion of segregation

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Reminder: Sign Up For Virtual Supreme Court By November 1 For Mentoring Session

Teams of two HS students will write a brief and present oral arguments on Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina

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The average reading level needed to digest statewide ballot measures

Welcome to the Monday, October 24, Brew.

The Guardian - US

The supreme court is in session – and every case is potentially a climate one

Sackett v EPA – an attack on the Clean Water Act – is by no means the only threat to climate policy before the court

Reason

The 11th Annual Harlan Institute-Ashbrook Virtual Supreme Court

Teams of two HS students will write a brief and present oral arguments on Students for Fair Admission v. University of North Carolina

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The Conversation

To foster real change universities need to stand beside Black professors, not condemn them

The past couple of weeks have seen wall to wall coverage of Queen Elizabeth’s death. Many media outlets took to eulogizing the Queen with effusive praise of her service and duty. But not everyone saw her and the insitution she headed in the same light.

Daily Mirror

Sikh student handcuffed by police for carrying his ceremonial knife on campus

Police were called to the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and placed a Sikh student in handcuffs after believing he was carrying a knife but it turned out to be a religious symbol

The Independent UK

Sikh student is handcuffed after religious object confused for knife on University of North Carolina campus

The student was approached by campus police at UNC on Friday

Tribune News Service

Scott Fowler: Charlie Scott on racism, trailblazing, Dean Smith and why he chose UNC

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlie Scott, this week’s star of the “Sports Legends of the Carolinas” series, was the first Black basketball player on scholarship at the University of North Carolina. In many ways, he was the Tar Heels’ version of baseball player Jackie Robinson, dealing with the racism inherent in…

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Scott Fowler: Davis Love III unplugged: On the Presidents Cup, Michael Jordan and the LIV Golf mess

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Davis Love III, this week’s interview subject for “Sports Legends of the Carolinas,” is a Hall of Fame golfer who was born in Charlotte and starred in college for the University of North Carolina.

Salon

When an ER doctor becomes an ER patient

An ER doctor describes the "perspective shift" that happens when you go from doctor to patient

Axios

California, Michigan universities argue they need affirmative action

The Supreme Court is set to consider the future of affirmative action later this fall.

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