Supreme Court rejects affirmative action at colleges, says schools can’t consider race in admission

Just use poverty markers. Better metric if they wish.

 

Perhaps we are moving closer to a country that does value equality.

 

LOL

 

About time. Even in the original ruling O’Connor remarked this will need to be revisited.

 

“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in 2007, “is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.” - Atlantic.

Hear, hear.

 

Uh bingo.

 

Have not read the opinions but did see they declined to apply the ruling to military academies at least for now. I wonder what the interests may be there that could survive strict scrutiny. They also ruled that applicants will be permitted to reference their race in terms of inspiration, overcoming adversity, etc. Will be interesting to read the details and also see how admissions numbers play out in coming years.

 

A far more justifiable factor in my opinion.

This was eventually going to happen. The only question is whether this was premature.

The longer affirmative action was around, the less likely it was to survive Constitutional scrutiny.

 

Good news. The 14th Amendment needs to mean something all of the time to everyone, not just when it’s convenient here and there. The most glaring injustice in this was faced by Americans of East Asian descent. Schools would treat them like the grades and scores they earned were somehow “unfair” and needed to be “handicapped” in some way. As stated above, I have no problem with considering bonafide poverty in admissions.

 

College is for white people, wars are for racial minorities

 

I think and hope so. Brown v. Board of Education only dealt with school segregation but ultimately and rightly led to the abolishment of all other forms of legal segregation as well.

 

You would think not. Don't tribal nations have some form of autonomy?

 

Not ALL, but I get your point.

This is the tip of the iceberg and more changes will be coming in the coming years, some quicker than others.

 

From a constitutional interpretation perspective I think this is the right answer and the correct ruling.

But the folks saying this is a win for equality are also cheering on the gutting of public schools, where most minorities have the best chance to better their standing in life. So I don't understand ya'll.