BREAKING: The Supreme Court grants two challenges to affirmative action in college admissions. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
The Supreme Court will reconsider whether race-conscious admissions in higher education violated both federal civil rights law and the Constitution, setting the stage for a total ban on affirmative action. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
It is unclear whether the Supreme Court will hear challenges to affirmative action in higher education this term or next term. The calendar is pretty full this term, so the court may push oral arguments to October 2022. Stay tuned.
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Like so many other grants this term, the affirmative action cases illustrate how Republicans have outsourced large chunks of their agenda to the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court, which now serves as the nation's most powerful policymaking body.
Rather than expend time and energy prohibiting affirmative action through the democratic process, Republicans captured a sufficient portion of the federal judiciary—including the Supreme Court—to ensure that their judges will do it for them.
While Democrats' policies typically require 60 votes to pass in the Senate, Republicans' policies require only 50—the number of votes it takes to confirm judges who will implement those policies from the bench.
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