Analysis
Friday, July 7th 2023 / Saturday, November 4th 2023
Brent Kendall, WSJ, June 29, 2023 The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision outlawing affirmative action in higher education produced more than 200 pages of jousting between different camps of justices, a clash that reflects a broader societal debate about racial inequality, historical discrimination and how to address it. Here are some of the highlights. Chief […]
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Dan Schnur JNS, July 6, 2023 “Most statistical analyses demonstrate that the greatest beneficiaries of the court’s ruling will be applicants of Asian heritage, far more so than white or Jewish students.” For most of this year, we have been paying a tremendous amount of attention to the Israeli judicial system. But the U.S. […]
Ron Kampeas, Times of Israel, June 30, 2023 WASHINGTON (JTA) — Harvard’s 20th-century antisemitic Jewish quotas were a key part of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut affirmative action on Thursday, as the winning litigant and two conservative justices cited them in the landmark case. The 6-3 decision Thursday, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, […]
Alison Durkee Forbes, June 29, 2023 “Students “must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race. Many universities have for too long done just the opposite,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion for the court. “And in doing so, they have concluded, wrongly, that […]
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