Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, which upheld Michigan's ban on affirmative action.
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They were for affirmative action; they were just against race conscious affirmative action.
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But the affirmative action debate often paints an inaccurate picture of what affirmative action actually is.
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Affirmative Action: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is correcting an affirmative action rule for federal agencies.
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Advocates of affirmative action should not run away from fashioning their arguments for affirmative action along these lines.
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We absolutely—this is something I've taken no affirmative action in, it's something I'm going to take affirmative action in.
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Some conservative groups have long opposed affirmative action, and a handful of states have banned affirmative action policies at public universities.
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Ever since, opponents of affirmative action have urged Texas and other universities to scrap affirmative action in favor of similar percentage programs.
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That decision upheld race-based affirmative action programs but also said the only constitutional justification for affirmative action is promoting racial diversity.
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Selectivity matters, especially for black students Scalia and other affirmative action opponents have positioned the mismatch theory as central to the case against affirmative action because it creates the impression that policy changes that eliminate affirmative action would benefit black students.
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The latest challenge to affirmative action began with a lawsuit filed by Edward Blum, who also launched the previous attack on affirmative action.
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He had never before voted to uphold an affirmative action plan, and had dissented in the last affirmative action case before this one.
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In short, not only have successive conservative legal efforts curtailed and criminalized affirmative action, they have limited severely, if not reversed, affirmative action.
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Affirmative action is the only hope their kids have—just because you don't call it affirmative action doesn't mean that's not what's at work.
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Affirmative action A lawsuit that could spell the beginning of the end of affirmative action goes to trial today in a federal court in Massachusetts.
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She asked if efforts to include diversity and inclusion were the same as affirmative action, with the implication being that affirmative action is a bad thing.
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" How the college scam could doom affirmative action Hess offers a counterintuitive point to those who say the college scam makes affirmative action critics look "ridiculous.
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To the Editor: In "Why Affirmative Action Is a Complicated Issue for Asian-Americans" (news article, June 17), almost all your quotes from Asian-Americans evaluate affirmative action on the basis of their self-interest: They oppose affirmative action because they believe the policy harms the admissions prospects of people like themselves, or they favor affirmative action because they believe the policy promotes their solidarity with other oppressed groups.
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After a Kennedy-for-Kavanaugh swap, it's likely that the uneasy affirmative action consensus will buckle, and a ruling finally doing away with public affirmative action programs will come.
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The ambitious aim of Melvin I. Urofsky's "The Affirmative Action Puzzle: A Living History From Reconstruction to Today" is a comprehensive account of the nonwhite version of affirmative action.
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When the Supreme Court first ruled on affirmative action in 1978, it ruled that affirmative action could not specifically help black and Hispanic students at the expense of other students.
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"It's the most prominent of the affirmative action cases, the one that's galvanized the most debate and discussion," said Edward Blum, an anti–affirmative action lawyer, of the Harvard discrimination lawsuit.
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Why are the speculative benefits of affirmative action for educational outcomes sufficient to uphold an affirmative-action program, while the speculative benefits for women's health are insufficient for upholding Texas' law?
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" She added, of the festival's focus: "It's affirmative action.
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Affirmative action can also feel condescending for black people, including myself, when others suggest that our accomplishments are due to affirmative action, instead of as a result of intelligence and hard work.
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According to Students for Fair Admission, an anti-affirmative action group, during the same period, Asian enrollment at Harvard, a staunch practitioner of affirmative action, went slightly downward, from 19% to 18%.
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As I pointed out in my first post, the court upheld U.T.'s affirmative-action program last week despite the absence of firm social-scientific evidence that affirmative action advances educational outcomes.
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In short, conservatives are taking another swing at dismantling affirmative action — hoping the case makes it to the Supreme Court, where a new conservative majority could rule broadly and outlaw affirmative action.
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With Kennedy gone, replaced by a more stalwart conservative, it's likely that the uneasy affirmative action consensus will buckle, and a ruling finally doing away with public affirmative action programs will come.
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Against affirmative action in Grutter; for the practice in Fisher.
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It's kinda the same idea as quotas, but... Affirmative action?
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The Trump administration can't dismantle affirmative action on its own.
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Shum's careful, thoughtful defense of affirmative action hadn't swayed them.
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Holiday first gained notoriety by speaking out against affirmative action.
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Don't blacks get plenty of perks from affirmative action programs?
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The backlash against affirmative action is gathering strength and clarity.
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Now the DoJ is entering the fray on affirmative action.
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Is there any uniformity in how affirmative action is practiced?
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Again, we see this in states that abolish affirmative action.
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Conservatives have typically argued that affirmative action hurts white applicants.
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Think of it as affirmative action, mandated by the constitution.
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Evidence suggests that affirmative action bans are having an impact.
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"I was a product of affirmative action," Mr. Locke said.
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He recently caused an uproar over remarks on affirmative action.
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" His appointments included Arthur Fletcher, "the father of affirmative action.
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It's a common one in liberal defenses of affirmative action.
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Supporters of affirmative action hailed the decision as a landmark.
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The best reasons for allowing affirmative action lie outside it.
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Bakke, the landmark 1978 Supreme Court case upholding affirmative action.
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Advocates of busing programs or affirmative action could be racist.
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Mention affirmative action, and some people's blood pressure immediately spikes.
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These restrictions did much more than just limit affirmative action.
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University of Texas, which challenges the use of affirmative action.
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I think that's what it's about, we need affirmative action.
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The plaintiffs cited a landmark affirmative action case, Gratz v.
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But why think affirmative action will be an appropriate remedy?
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Why does affirmative action not applied for Asian college applicants?
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Did white men suffer as a result of affirmative action?
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Hellerstedt (2016) or the affirmative action decision in Fisher v.
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But affirmative action is also in employment, and public contracting.
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He supports affirmative action policies, but opposes the mayor's plan.
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CAROL SWAIN, FORMER VANDERBILT PROFESSOR: First of all I say that I have been a professor for 28 years, and affirmative action, race-based affirmative action has been around all of those 28 years.
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There may be future Supreme Court challenges to affirmative action, as signaled by the passionate dissent Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. read from the bench, and the strong opposition to affirmative action that remains.
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Whether this was a result of the student movement, or the demise of inherited privilege, the rise of affirmative action, or the reaction against affirmative action, or the spread of the internet, is still unanswered.
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In any case, legal restrictions on affirmative action in California and other states and the Supreme Court's insistence on a diverse student body rather than specific affirmative action for blacks have held back enrollment percentages.
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This is tantamount to affirmative action for well-off white students.
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You specialize in the study of race relation, multiculturalism, affirmative action.
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There's no need to shy away from the "affirmative action" label.
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He said Trump has supported affirmative action and opposed segregated establishments.
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Affirmative action policies are related to the admission process, not tuition.
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Click here to join the debate: Should affirmative action be scrapped?
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First, affirmative action actually strengths an organisation's claim to be meritocratic.
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Fields said she asked Trump about his views on affirmative action.
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It began to attack affirmative action policies a few years later.
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But establishing how much credit affirmative action can take is hard.
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Today it partially embraces race-based policies such as affirmative action.
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But the likeliest impetus for change is the affirmative-action trial.
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Opinion surveys have found indigenous groups robustly support affirmative action policies.
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Bollinger allowing the continuation of race-based affirmative action on campus.
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But last week's decision does not sanction every affirmative action programme.
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There's a popular argument among conservatives that King opposed affirmative action.
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The magazine attacked feminism; it attacked homosexuality; it attacked affirmative action.
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" Racial quotas morphed into "affirmative action," and now more benignly — "diversity.
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Without Kennedy, it could fall and campus affirmative action be prohibited.
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She was also at the center of battles over affirmative action.
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There were successful initiatives to ban affirmative action and bilingual education.
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Of course, the competing positions on affirmative action deserved an airing.
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It therefore follows that affirmative action is not a tenable practice.
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California has banned affirmative action in colleges and universities since 1996.
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He preserved the use of affirmative-action policies at public universities.
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Under our legal system, this leads us to affirmative action legislation.
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Surveys show that by and large, Asian-Americans support affirmative action.
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Writers from across the political spectrum discuss the affirmative action debate.
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Affirmative action critics have a catchphrase for that kind of dynamic.
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Colleges must do better explaining affirmative action to the American people.
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FOR DISCRIMINATIONRace, Affirmative Action, and the LawBy Randall Kennedy304 pp. Pantheon.
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Many firms and educational institutions have affirmative-action or diversity officers.
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Do students admitted under affirmative-action criteria benefit from their educations?
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Bakke, the first major challenge to affirmative action in higher education.
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This year, voters will have the option to reinstate affirmative action.
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That would lead to an unexpected victory for affirmative action advocates.
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Bakke, the first major challenge to affirmative action in higher education.
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They wrongly assume that Asian-Americans cannot benefit from affirmative action.
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The case established the court's position on affirmative action for decades.
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Vincent Pan, the co-head of Chinese for Affirmative Action, told me that when he describes affirmative action in terms of employment opportunities, or hiring more Asian-American judges or college faculty, people overwhelmingly support it.
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It is possible to understand the opposition to affirmative action of white conservatives, like Ronald Reagan, who regard civil-rights laws as federal overreach and affirmative action as enshrining the un-American notion of group rights.
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Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action plan It was a surprise ruling, as supporters of affirmative action thought the court and Kennedy were poised to curtail programs that took race into consideration as a factor.
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If you believe that affirmative action is the biggest obstacle getting in the way of your child's success, you may cast your vote for Republicans who, like President Trump, believe that affirmative action unfairly punishes their own.
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New test of affirmative action, at Harvard No ambiguity has surrounded Roberts' rejection of the affirmative action programs that a narrow majority has upheld since the 1978 case of Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.
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This is superficially reasonable, as many ethical positions on affirmative action are.
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Eight of the 50 U.S. states ban affirmative action in public universities.
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Ah, but they're also less likely to support affirmative action for women.
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Opponents of affirmative action have used these grievances to challenge the law.
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This essay is part of a debate on affirmative action this week.
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This article is part of a debate on affirmative action this week.
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MYTH: Affirmative action is about giving preferential treatment to people of color.
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The Trump administration's views on affirmative action are back in the news.
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In the past, Blum had sought white students to challenge affirmative action.
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Conservative justices expressed reservations about the affirmative action admissions policy during Dec.
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Since 2003 five affirmative-action cases have come before the Supreme Court.
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They are angry at policies such as affirmative action and land expropriation.
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Affirmative action in college admissions has survived yet another Supreme Court challenge.
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He stood up for abortion rights and protected affirmative action at universities.
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Texas in 2016 proves that affirmative action is on the legal ropes.
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The ruling allows the limited use of affirmative action policies by schools.
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" The goal of this law was "to implement an affirmative action program.
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Bollinger, the affirmative action case involving the University of Michigan Law School.
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It's like affirmative action; it means nothing anymore — the words become vanilla.
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And with it goes the most powerful moral argument for affirmative action.
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A ruling against the university could imperil affirmative action in higher education.
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That makes a mockery of affirmative action, and of the university itself.
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But the high court has long banned those uses of affirmative action.
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Kavanaugh is equally opposed to affirmative action, some civil rights advocates say.
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The U.S. Supreme Court is now revisiting affirmative action at elite colleges.
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Two-thirds of those students had been admitted through affirmative action policies.
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Many issues, like gun rights or affirmative action, will remain very partisan.
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Professor Neusner was a cultural conservative who opposed feminism and affirmative action.
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Critics of affirmative action see plenty of room for future legal challenges.
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But affirmative action turned that notion on its head, Ms. Yang said.
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Affirmative action has long been a contentious issue in the United States.
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He once defended a white rancher in Hawaii who opposed affirmative action.
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In four decades, the Supreme Court has validated affirmative action three times.
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As a result, each and every admitted student is an affirmative action.
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The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the school's affirmative action program in 2016.
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Background reading: • The affirmative action battle has a new focus: Asian-Americans.
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"Do something" is still one of the meanings of "affirmative action" today.
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But that is essentially what affirmative action in this second sense entails.
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Affirmative action is facing court challenges at Harvard and other elite colleges.
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The product of fools, raised by idiots and coddled by affirmative action.
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Jack says there is a connection between the scandal and affirmative action.
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If he's confirmed, how might Judge Gorsuch vote on affirmative action questions?
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Affirmative action is facing court challenges at Harvard and other elite colleges.
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And how is the current affirmative action discussion potentially obscuring those issues?
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The first successful case to challenge affirmative action policy was Hopwood v.
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Affirmative Action Challenge The New York Times published a document on Tuesday signaling that the Trump administration could direct the Department of Justice to investigate universities it believes are using affirmative action policies to discriminate against white applicants.
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Much of the opposition in Washington State was led by Asian-Americans — including some who worried that affirmative action could affect their record of success in university admissions — but many others supported the effort to restore affirmative action.
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In the same week he became the swing vote to strike down Texas's anti-abortion law, he voted to uphold the state's university affirmative action program, the first time he had ever found an affirmative action program constitutional.
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To the Editor: Re "Affirmative Action at 50: Successes and Regrets" (front page, March 31): I appreciate Anemona Hartocollis's report on affirmative action at Columbia University, specifically the divergent outcomes of black students who were enrolled in 19693.
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Thomas Sowell, the author of "Affirmative Action around the World", observes that although affirmative action policies are typically introduced as temporary measures aimed at narrow groups, they often expand in scope as new groups demand privileges, and become permanent.
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Typical affirmative action discussions hinge on the issue of meritocracy — that what makes affirmative action fundamentally flawed is that people who are getting a "leg up" are seen as inherently undeserving compared to those people who have had advantages.
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If preferred admissions isn't reparations, it is as a type of affirmative action.
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"I wouldn't say it's affirmative action but it's a recognition," Brown-Philpot said.
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If we were really originalists, it's clear that affirmative action would be constitutional.
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Conservatives have long embraced the argument that affirmative action is unconstitutional racial discrimination.
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But lots of ways to carry out an affirmative action program aren't constitutional.
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Nowhere is this more clear than in the decadeslong debate over affirmative action.
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In fact, some argue that eliminating affirmative action policies would hurt Asian students.
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Black people don't go to college for free thanks to affirmative action policies.
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In fact, eight states have banned affirmative action in one way or another.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is withdrawing Obama-era "guidance documents" about affirmative action.
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We're talking about a very small number of institutions that practices affirmative action.
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Texas, an affirmative action case in which the plaintiff was a white woman.
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The department called the report "inaccurate," but it reignited debate over affirmative action.
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Some of them cite those words as evidence that King opposed affirmative action.
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The two discussed affirmative action, police brutality and the Flint, Michigan, water crisis.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also took an inclusive approach on affirmative action.
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He had never voted before to uphold a race-based affirmative action policy.
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Washington was among the first states to ban affirmative action 613 years ago.
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Those who have been adversely affected by affirmative action (or think they have).
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" They get affirmative action, sympathy and welfare — "checks for the listless and idle.
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What do you think — did Kennedy lose his enthusiasm for killing affirmative action?
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Could this lawsuit become the one that ends affirmative action in higher education?
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A careful review of the data shows that affirmative action benefits minority students.
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Justice Kennedy is the only reason we have affirmative action in this country.
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He says, because I don't like affirmative action, it might make everything worse?
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In California, they helped defeat the affirmative action measure, known as S.C.A. 22017.
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Affirmative action for minorities in college admissions is once again under serious challenge.
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" So, in all this time with affirmative action "the figures have scarcely changed.
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Kavanaugh knows firsthand that affirmative action works, but he opposes it as policy.
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But he prevented the end of affirmative action in university admissions in 2016.
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Business leaders provided important support when the Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action.
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They found themselves at the center of a national debate on affirmative action.
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Affirmative action is an attempt to redress an injustice done to black people.
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The plaintiffs argued that Harvard's affirmative-action policy favours black and Hispanic applicants.
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The affirmative action debate in this country has a long and controversial history.
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And affirmative action, of course, has long been a hobby horse of conservatives.
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See the Harvard affirmative action case currently being argued before the Supreme Court.
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The affirmative action debate is shifting again, with new faces but old arguments.
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Can black Americans argue for affirmative action or reforming the criminal justice system?
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What's at stake: The future of race-based affirmative action in college admissions.
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Affirmative Action fast facts "Kennedy's evolution matters because at least for the moment, his is the decisive vote on this and subsequent challenges that are already in the pipeline, on the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action programs," Vladeck added.
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" When asked if he believes initiatives like affirmative action are discriminatory in practice, Pekgoz said he is neither "supportive nor critical," adding that Black and Latinx students are often underrepresented at colleges, so affirmative action makes sense to achieve "balanced representation.
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White women have been the plaintiffs in some lawsuits against affirmative action, and conservatives have argued that the practice harms white women, even though research has shown that white women have been some of the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action.
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How Trump became the 'white affirmative action president' In the latest "This Could Be Awkward," John Blake and Tawanda Scott Sambou explore the ways in which President Trump embodies the worst stereotypes that conservatives have invoked to describe affirmative action beneficiaries.
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Washington (CNN)Justice Anthony Kennedy finally found an affirmative action case that he liked.
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The 4-3 ruling greenlights the limited use of affirmative action polices by schools.
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The new docket included cases on public sector unions, voting rights and affirmative action.
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Even after the Supreme Court's landmark affirmative action decision this summer in Fisher v.
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Wade, limit affirmative action, weaken environmental regulations, and otherwise undermine liberal priorities once confirmed.
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Proponents of affirmative action have been biting their fingernails over this case for years.
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University of Texas, that affirmative action is constitutional and doesn't discriminate against white applicants.
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In fact, studies have found that white women benefit the most from affirmative action.
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The philosophy underpinning a sensible affirmative-action policy should be that of restorative justice.
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Affirmative action is not always necessary, or the best way to achieve equal representation.
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The Supreme Court's Republican majority is likely to abolish affirmative action, and fairly soon.
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Harvard wins lawsuit against its affirmative action program; Peru faces leadership and constitutional crisis.
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Read the full story here, and find out the truth about affirmative action here.
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This was pre-affirmative action, pre-Civil Rights Act of 1964, for that matter.
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"I'm the beneficiary of the biggest affirmative action program in American history," Wallis says.
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Malays have stopped thinking of affirmative action as a temporary device to diminish inequality.
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Affirmative Action increases racial tension, perpetuates social division and it leads to reverse discrimination.
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Scalia and the court's three still-sitting conservatives all ruled against affirmative-action policies.
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Last term, progressives scored victories in the areas of abortion rights and affirmative action.
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Under a government affirmative-action policy, university-entrance requirements are lower for ethnic minorities.
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He expressed resentment over affirmative action and opposed marriage equality for gays and lesbians.
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It's been a defensive bulwark against affirmative action, hate speech, and same sex marriage.
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In general, you need affirmative action only at selective, elite institutions of higher education.
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Ironically, it is comparable to the affirmative action that Trump's administration has been against.
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But with affirmative action, Asian-Americans appear to veer, relatively speaking, to the right.
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Affirmative action helps ensure that best-qualified applicants get the jobs that they deserve.
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Go deeper: How minority students fare in states that banned affirmative action, from FiveThirtyEight.
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Myth 3: King opposed affirmative action Remember this line in King's most famous speech?
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The right opposes the very categorizations that enable affirmative action or racial set-asides.
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Like the Jats, the Patels are a relatively wealthy community angry about affirmative action.
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Though narrowly approved by the Supreme Court, affirmative-action policies are unpopular in America.
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The second upheld affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Public opinion has shifted nationwide, but voters in Washington still rejected affirmative action policies.
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The next big development on affirmative action is likely to come from pending lawsuits.
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Yet it's worth remembering the limits of today's affirmative action landscape, even after Fisher.
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But in at least some form, affirmative action is here for the foreseeable future.
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As a policy, "affirmative action" triggers strong feelings and divisions for Americans over race.
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Justice Elena Kagan recused herself from hearing the recent affirmative action case, Fisher v.
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The affirmative action rules would apply to federal agencies but not the private sector.
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The Trump administration began taking steps last year to chip away at affirmative action.
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But the most powerful defense of affirmative action came, once again, from the courts.
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Suspicions about the fitness and the qualifications of nonwhites didn't begin with affirmative action.
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"It was like affirmative action for conservatives," Beck wrote on his website on Thursday.
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Kennedy, who once seemed opposed to affirmative action, came around to it in Fisher.
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The affirmative action rules would apply to federal agencies, but not the private sector.
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I mention all this not because I think affirmative action is a bad idea.
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In 2016, the court again held that affirmative action was constitutional in Fisher v.
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In her career, she has advocated for education, affirmative action and African-American issues.
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We may even embrace racial discrimination as an affirmative action that fuels deeper divides.
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But later that year he was admitted to U.C.L.A. under an affirmative action program.
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They are exploring ways to force conservative views onto campuses through intellectual affirmative action.
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"Joaquín and I got into Stanford because of affirmative action," Castro told the magazine.
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Listen, Washington: It seems to me the justification for affirmative action just keeps changing.
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Attacks on affirmative action such as Fisher are based on essentially no real evidence.
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And he and his followers are ideal allies for white, anti-affirmative action conservatives.
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It's been 50 years since affirmative action began to affect the college admissions process.
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In court, Harvard's lawyers argued that the future of affirmative action was at stake.
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On Saturday, soon after the affirmative action project went online, I got two emails.
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Progress requires risk-taking, and the risks involved in affirmative action have been worthwhile.
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The achievements and limitations of affirmative action in the United States is frequently cited.
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We don't have affirmative action because it's "nice"; we have it because it's necessary.
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Affirmative action is a useful tool when used in an open and transparent manner.
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The case is widely seen as a battle over the future of affirmative action.
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In today's show, we discuss the man behind an affirmative action case at Harvard.
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A federal court has just handed Harvard's affirmative action admissions policies a big win.
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Yet he made it into Yale Law School because of an affirmative action program.
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We just need to get over this affirmative action kind of approach to everything.
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In other words, she used affirmative action to get a job she didn't deserve.
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"Imagine believing it's affirmative action that's the problem with college admissions," the ACLU tweeted.
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Lee also stressed how the campus would be transformed if affirmative action were disallowed.
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Kennedy was also the decisive vote for same-sex marriage and university affirmative action.
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A second rationale for affirmative action is to undo the effects of current prejudice.
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But the embrace of individualism allowed for a rejection of programs like affirmative action.
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Affirmative action in college admissions hurts Asian Americans, especially at elite universities like Harvard.
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Further confusing this debate is the question of where Asians fit into affirmative action.
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She voted to uphold affirmative action in a university setting in a 22005-231 decision in 22006 after having written a key decision in 1995 that subjected federal government affirmative action programs to strict scrutiny — meaning they likely would not be upheld.
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The Harvard case, which was brought by an anti-affirmative-action group called Students for Fair Admissions, is seen as a test of whether a decades-long effort by conservative politicians and advocates to roll back affirmative action policies will ultimately succeed.
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" Leong and Chemerinsky continue: "By framing opposition to affirmative action as concern for Asian Americans, opponents of affirmative action can protect the existing racial hierarchy — with white people at the top — while disguising their efforts as race-neutral rather than racially motivated.
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Clinton talked about affirmative action, voting rights and other issues that disproportionately affect black voters.
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Here's what you should know about the current state of affirmative action on college campuses.
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Affirmative action programs in higher education were meant to address America's historic racial discrimination problem.
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He upheld the use of affirmative action, extended legal rights to foreign terrorists at Gitmo.
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He is pursuing a Trumpist agenda on immigration, affirmative action, voting rights, and law enforcement.
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A question, perhaps, for future debaters: is affirmative action a just response to persistent inequality?
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For example, the Chinese community in California vigorously opposed extending affirmative action in public universities.
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But the last high court ruling upholding affirmative action was a narrow 4–3 vote.
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MYTH: Everyone has an equal playing field in the U.S., so affirmative action is outdated.
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In these conversations and others, Murray repeatedly brings up the dreaded threat of affirmative action.
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Oracle values diversity and inclusion, and is a responsible equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, as Americans confusingly call it, has been a defining feature of modern India.
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Or, demanding his school transcripts to see how he got into Harvard — (eg, affirmative action ).
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Affirmative action is designed to address the historical inequities that have devastated communities for generations.
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Yet most supporters of the Republican Party back affirmative action (along with 84% of Democrats).
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In June, the Supreme Court upheld the UT Affirmative Action plan as a constitutional right.
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Now, one "affirmative action" bake sale later, the campus won't recognize the student group either.
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But civil rights groups criticized the move in July as an attack on affirmative action.
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They often are impatient with the encumbrances of due process or affirmative action for minorities.
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Elite American colleges then operate a large, entirely legal affirmative-action programme for the rich.
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And some mistakenly believe that dismantling of affirmative action will remove barriers to elite educations.
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But King's sense of affirmative action was not something that only benefited blacks, Baldwin says.
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In the US and other countries, politicians tried to tackle racial inequality with affirmative action.
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Cases challenging partisan gerrymandering and affirmative action are already making their way to the court.
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California, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Arizona, New Hampshire and Oklahoma all have prohibitions on affirmative action.
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Much of the opposition has focused on how affirmative action would affect the state's universities.
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This history captures the almost paradoxical position of many Asian-American supporters of affirmative action.
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The support for affirmative action programs has grown significantly since 22019, according to the poll.
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This year's decisions on abortion and affirmative action are a repeat of 0003 and 2003.
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Bollinger, the court upheld the use of affirmative action in a public university's admissions policy.
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The NAACP described him as a "hard-core ideologue" who is "hostile" to affirmative action.
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Little is known about Srinivasan's views on divisive social issues like abortion and affirmative action.
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This is a big change in the Court's approach to affirmative action in higher education.
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In-The-Know: The Supreme Court upheld affirmative action as constitutional, sparking the hashtag #BeckyWithTheBadGrades.
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Along party lines, roughly 50% of Republicans support affirmative action, compared to 84% of Democrats.
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When Kennedy came on the court, he was a strong foe of affirmative action programs.
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Will that be equally true of those who, thanks to affirmative action, did get in?
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"The future of affirmative action in college admissions is not on trial," Mr. Mortara said.
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Gutting: You're right that there have been different justifications for affirmative action in different situations.
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Pacific Legal's lawsuit compounds a growing legal threat to affirmative action policies at selective schools.
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She interviewed 36 Asian Americans last year who have advocated for or against affirmative action.
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My job was not to decide whether affirmative action was a success or a failure.
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Students are suing the university, saying its affirmative action policies discriminate against Asian-American applicants.
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They oppose affirmative action because they believe America should never again use hateful racial classifications.
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Professor Boddie has advised universities on how to comply with federal law on affirmative action.
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Absent swift and affirmative action, the coronavirus could spread quickly among the most vulnerable Iraqis.
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Harvard turned the case into a referendum on diversity and the future of affirmative action.
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AOC, a Democrat, argued that the institution amounts to "electoral affirmative action" for rural voters.
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Ms. Yao, now 21 and a junior at Barnard College, grew to support affirmative action.
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The case is a challenge to affirmative action and may head to the Supreme Court.
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Two big announcements — on affirmative action and leak investigations — grabbed the nation's attention last week.
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Proponents of affirmative action commonly argue that diversity improves critical thinking, creativity and race relations.
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However, ramping up affirmative action in college admissions could actually benefit underrepresented Asian American groups.
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Concrete policies like affirmative action can help us move beyond stereotypes and confront racism together.
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He has previously written on affirmative action for the Journal of College and University Law.
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That's why, as Urofsky notes, the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action have been white women.
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"Everybody believes in affirmative action when it comes to the admission of athletes," Hildebrand wrote.
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His support for civil rights and affirmative action earned him a 100% from the NAACP.
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Outright quotas for women have been a nonstarter: Todai administrators reject affirmative action as inequitable.
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On both abortion and affirmative action, Kennedy had appeared to drift right in recent years.
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There is one point, however, that both supporters and critics of affirmative action agree on.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy cast the decisive vote favoring the University of Texas affirmative action program.
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It was later dismissed because there was another affirmative action complaint already pending against Harvard.
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Aggressive affirmative action policies lead to "trouble down the road" for admitted students, she said.
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And the other argument they provided to me was they were not against affirmative action.
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They sometimes assume that affirmative action will make it easier for him to get acceptances.
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Cory Booker (D-NJ) questioning statements Kavanaugh has made on affirmative action and government assistance.
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The aforementioned CCES survey, which only asked about racial affirmative action, is just one example.
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Sending a signal that complaints against affirmative action will find a sympathetic ear could lead to an outpouring of complaints and investigations from white students rejected in the college admissions process, who have historically been the plaintiffs in lawsuits that seek to overturn affirmative action.
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Recent filings in two separate federal lawsuits against race-conscious admissions policies at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill and Harvard initiated by long-term opponent of affirmative action, Edward Blum, continue to bring attention to the issue of race-based affirmative action.
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While the Supreme Court has ruled schools can increase diversity through affirmative action, then-Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a 4-85033 decision in 2016 that universities must continue to monitor their affirmative action programs for any possible negative effects, according to the Journal.
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According to The New York Times, a leaked document suggests that Sessions's Justice Department intends to begin suing universities over their affirmative action policies: The document does not explicitly identify whom the Justice Department considers at risk of discrimination because of affirmative action admissions policies.
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The leader of Students for Fair Admissions and the architect of the case against Harvard is Edward Blum, a longtime crusader against affirmative action who has raised millions of dollars from conservative groups to challenge voting rights laws and affirmative action policies, often successfully.
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Affirmative action has shaped a more diverse workforce, proportional with the racial breakdown of South Africa.
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I'm not here for this affirmative action shit where you just get booked because you're black.
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As a federal contractor, Google must comply with the US government's nondiscrimination and affirmative action statutes.
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In my first week on campus, a classmate questioned the premise of affirmative action in tech.
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Affirmative action in college admissions has repeatedly survived Supreme Court scrutiny, including as recently as 2016.
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It has undermined criminal justice reform, litigated in defense of voter suppression and attacked affirmative action.
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On the face of things, this system of affirmative action has been a success (see article).
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That's your affirmative action, is taking the meeting with someone that you wouldn't normally meet with.
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Affirmative action has helped to narrow the difference between the incomes of Malays and other races.
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If there's anything Scalia hates more than affirmative action, abortion, or jiggery- pokey applesauce, it's sodomy.
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When affirmative action was implemented, did we we see an uptick in minority applicants to colleges?
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And the Supreme Court has already made it more difficult for institutions to implement affirmative action.
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The affirmative action debate is so divisive that I don't really see people changing their minds.
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In Fisher, Justice Anthony Kennedy finally found an affirmative action program he believed to be constitutional.
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This influences how they see programs like affirmative action, which were created to rectify historical inequalities.
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More recently, Brazil has started to try explicit racial preferences (known in America as "affirmative action").
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And it doesn't help that this research has found its way into arguments against affirmative action.
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The court rejected the challenge, 4-3, handing a major victory to supporters of affirmative action.
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Gallup found this year that 57 percent of white Americans favored affirmative action programs for minorities.
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But opponents of affirmative action qualified a referendum to overturn that legislative vote for November's ballot.
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Even victories for affirmative action establish precedents that draw the circle of acceptable practices ever smaller.
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Some of them had climbed it and refused to come down until affirmative action was reinstated.
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The impulse to validate affirmative action is good, but the Board is not a government agency.
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For years, the face of the movement to curb affirmative action was a young white woman.
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A 1961 order from President John F. Kennedy introduced the term "affirmative action" into our lexicon.
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Over time, affirmative action was applied to other programs, private and public, voluntary and legally required.
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And that's why I hope the federal district court in Boston upholds Harvard's affirmative action system.
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Affirmative-action goals would bring more women, black people, and young people to the national convention.
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Then decades later, liberalism moved to create affirmative action programs to help those same African-Americans.
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The overwhelming volume of scientific evidence shows no link between affirmative action and failure to graduate.
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With that, the bare bones of affirmative action — the "reservations," or quota, system — were in place.
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They were demanding inclusion in India's caste-based affirmative action program, seeking access to government jobs.
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He has also said he would look to end affirmative action in the college admissions process.
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By limiting the permissible rationales for affirmative action, they have reshaped the conversation surrounding racial justice.
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To be told that you are an affirmative action hire shakes the ground under your feet.
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Perhaps the deepest damage affirmative action does is to those it embraces, not those it rejects.
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He signed a petition and donated money to a campaign to stop the affirmative action measure.
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It has since taken on greater significance, he said, with current court battles over affirmative action.
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I'm a strong supporter of affirmative action because I've seen it work in my own life.
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In addition, he championed affirmative-action programs, carrying the fight to the United States Supreme Court.
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The largest group to benefit from affirmative action in the United States has been white women.
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Asian-Americans have a new ally in their affirmative action case against Harvard: the Justice Department.
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They have a clear litmus test for any politician seeking their support: opposition to affirmative action.
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We need to stop pretending that affirmative action is the source of our problems around race.
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The case, which has divided Asian-Americans, is widely seen as a referendum on affirmative action.
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" That's Peter Beinart, in a piece for The Atlantic called "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby.
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In fact, today's socioeconomic order has been significantly shaped by federally backed affirmative action for whites.
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His classmates keep implying that he's only in the program at all because of affirmative action.
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For decades, Malaysia has adopted a policy of institutionalized affirmative action favoring the ethnic Malay majority.
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Her litigation experience also includes work on big cases like the affirmative action case Fisher v.
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By this measure, affirmative action is probably less popular politically than a national survey would imply.
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I've often heard Asian-Americans express resentment toward blacks and Latinos for benefiting from affirmative action.
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In the email in question, Kavanaugh questioned affirmative action regulations from the Department of Transportation (DOT).
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Bradley, and weakened affirmative action programs in college with Regents of the University of California v.
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Yet affirmative action, which is intended to help underrepresented minorities, gets intense scrutiny and legal challenges.
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Both were written by conservatives opposed to multiculturalism, affirmative action, and government programs for the poor.
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Affirmative action is not only an admission criteria today: It is a criteria for free speech.
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They didn't arrive with the resources of this particular group that is now fighting affirmative action.
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And they were doing best in Chicago, where they had the most aggressive affirmative action policy.
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It really is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater of holistic review affirmative action.
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When he approached me, I asked him about his view on an aspect of affirmative action.
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It is amazing that a lot of rich white people are so afraid of affirmative action.
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"The argument that affirmative action harms Asian American people is simply inaccurate," Leong and Chemerinsky write.
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But another variety turns Asian Americans into racial mascots of the movement opposed to affirmative action.
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Sex discrimination protections were not included when affirmative action policy was initially institutionalized in the 1960s.
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However, the EU is working on implementing affirmative action and quota systems across Europe, so my best bet has been to push for affirmative action at the European level because it has a better chance of trickling down from Brussels than originating from Italian policy-making.
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Those hoping to outlaw affirmative action in future litigation will be tempted to see that fact as reason for hope, while its defenders, long conditioned to fear the worst at the hands of a conservative court, may also continue to fret that affirmative action is not secure.
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In the early nineties, Glynn Custred, an anthropologist at California State University, Hayward, who had told the Washington Post that affirmative action was like "reversed Jim Crow," met Tom Wood, a Ph.D. recipient who believed that affirmative action was the reason he could not find a professorship.
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The court will also decide an affirmative action case but only seven justices will vote on that.
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Kennedy provided the key vote to affirm a University of Texas racial affirmative action policy in 252.
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The University of Minnesota's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action looks into complaints of sexual assault.
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Nor does it address how such a strategy of income-based affirmative action could affect university budgets.
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In India, a resurgent Hindu nationalism asks the upper castes why untouchables should benefit from affirmative action.
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Chinese students are accepted on merit, and affirmative action means fewer admissions for students on that measure.
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"Affirmative action helps to give people burdened by structural disadvantage a fair opportunity to compete," Roithmayr said.
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His position on affirmative action, for instance, is basically in lockstep with the largely white Republican Party.
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Republicans have run against affirmative action for decades and yet done very little to change the policies.
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Do quotas and affirmative action rebalance an unfair system or are they just another form of discrimination?
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In July, the use of race-based affirmative action in college admissions survived a Supreme Court challenge.
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There are, however, possible ways to combine affirmative action policies with a single-member-district electoral system.
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The Trump administration has been hostile to affirmative action policies, which were encouraged under President Barack Obama.
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Bill Clinton once said that the best approach to affirmative action was "mend it, don't end it".
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But as one economist points out, the primary problem with college admissions isn't affirmative action at all.
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Gender equality and affirmative action: Puzder has said little on this, but the signs are not good.
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Chang prefers the original justification for affirmative action programs as a remedy for years of brutal discrimination.
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Even with affirmative action, blacks and Hispanics are more underrepresented at top colleges than 35 years ago.
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As universities learned to reframe their affirmative-action programs as diversity programs, students learned to believe them.
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Berrey and Hirschman hypothesized that these schools were reacting to a broad political backlash against affirmative action.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday issued rulings in two high-profile cases on immigration and affirmative action.
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The measure ultimately fell just short of approval, a coalition in Washington that supported affirmative action acknowledged.
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Polls have also indicated support for affirmative action programs from Asian-Americans, particularly those who are younger.
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While affirmative action policies have faced decades of legal challenges, courts have largely sustained race-conscious practices.
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Fortunately, Justice Kennedy, who has long been a strong skeptic of affirmative-action programs, rejected that view.
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Disability: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is proposing new affirmative action rules for federal workers with disabilities.
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A survey from 2012 showed that Asian-Americans supported affirmative action by a three-to-one margin.
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Affirmative action is within one justice's vote of being abolished across the nation in all its forms.
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I hold it against the court's skimpy and inadequate rationale for affirmative action in the first place.
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The reasons these constituents support affirmative action don't really matter, as far as academic administrators are concerned.
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Policies such as abortion access, family planning, affirmative action and voting rights now hang in the balance.
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Op-Ed Contributor NOW that the Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action in its second Fisher v.
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The agency said the final rule clarifies the affirmative action obligation under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
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To survive the Court's scrutiny, affirmative action had to be "narrowly tailored" to serve a "compelling" interest.
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The big cases the court did decide, on abortion and affirmative action, were triumphs, Justice Ginsburg said.
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Texas, the most recent Supreme Court case attacking affirmative action, is also behind the lawsuit against Harvard.
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In Boston on Monday, a court will hear an affirmative action case that could resonate for decades.
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And they have a clear litmus test for any politician seeking their support: opposition to affirmative action.
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On some issues — like affirmative action, which is in the news again today — Republicans have an opening.
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That's what affirmative action was meant to alter — to make education a true means of upward mobility.
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Read more: The Justice Department just took a very public step in the fight against affirmative action.
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Affirmative action became a regular target; legacy admission of whites to colleges and universities was rarely discussed.
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A bitter custody battle threatens affirmative action laws, tribal rights, and the future of one little girl.
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As for what affirmative action has since become in all its "diversity" disguises, well, that's another story.
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But while affirmative-action laws help women get ahead, they do not save them from political crises.
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Brett Kavanaugh knows firsthand that affirmative action works and he uses it to hire female law clerks.
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President Reagan has rapped what he described as racial 'quotas' in some of these 'affirmative action' plans.
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That might be changing with a budding movement led by some Chinese-American activists against affirmative action.
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The bitter fight over Harvard's race-conscious admissions process — and affirmative action nationwide — is far from done.
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Mr. Blum was behind the last affirmative action admissions case to reach the Supreme Court, Fisher v.
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Recent terms have ended with blockbuster decisions on gay rights, abortion, affirmative action, health care and voting.
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It gave the private sector far more flexibility than government and academia in designing affirmative action programs.
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Or is Trump the nation's first affirmative action president, someone who is in way over his head?
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I'm not arguing for affirmative action for conservatives — partly because conservative academics say they don't want preferences.
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Others worried that affirmative action was making Malays complacent and unable to compete in a free market.
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" But Mr. Coiro said he supported affirmative action, despite being, in his words, "kind of right-leaning.
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Below, two books delve into the debate, while another shows why affirmative action may not be enough.
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WHEN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WAS WHITEAn Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century AmericaBy Ira Katznelson3.973 pp.
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He was also a strong defender of affirmative action programs and other measures to address historic discrimination.
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Still in place today, it in effect operates as one of the world's biggest affirmative action schemes.
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The case is considered the latest challenge in an attempt to end affirmative action in college admissions.
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And when I got into Harvard, they insinuated that my acceptance was a result of affirmative action.
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His data suggesting that diversity reduces trust and social capital was cited by opponents of affirmative action.
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That outrage rarely considers that, legally, affirmative action cannot exist merely to help individual students overcome discrimination.
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A judge rejected that complaint, which was filed by an anti-affirmative action group, earlier this year.
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That's probably my biggest concern around the fact that [affirmative action] gets centered as the key concern.
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It's so interesting, in part, because so much of affirmative action policies are not race-conscious specifically.
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Luckily, this was in 1992, some years before Proposition 209 outlawed affirmative action in California's public schools.
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Martin (Garen McRoberts), is a cocky corporate bro who can't stand what he perceives as affirmative action.
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How does that fit into the kind of profile of those who are fighting against affirmative action?
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That outrage rarely considers that, legally, affirmative action cannot exist merely to help individual students overcome discrimination.
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But even so, it is important to recognize that the problem would be racism, not affirmative action.
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In particular, the generalizations ignore the Asian-American subgroups that stand to benefit most from affirmative action.
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If the Republican appointees stick together, they could strike down affirmative action by a 4-3 vote.
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Upholding the Fifth Circuit's decision would allow affirmative action at colleges to continue under the existing rules.
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Affirmative action In December, the court seemed divided on a major affirmative action case challenging the race-conscious admissions plan at the University of Texas, with supporters of the school fearful that the the justices are poised to curtail the use of race as one factor in admissions.
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This issue has once again splintered the Asian American community and pit minority groups against one another — similar to the more national lawsuit being waged against Harvard by anti-affirmative action Asian activists and legal strategist Ed Blum (though polls show a majority of Asian Americans support affirmative action).
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Among examples, he's been called "tar baby" and "the ultimate Affirmative Action N******" and depicted as a chimp.
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So it's possible that Asian students will end up benefiting from the Justice Department's fight against affirmative action.
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Currently, universities use affirmative action policies to ensure that minority applicants have opportunities to receive a higher education.
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Like I'm not going to say no, you know, it's not affirmative action getting her onto the air.
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Affirmative action A federal judge upheld Harvard's admission process after a group representing Asian-American applicants challenged it.
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He could end affirmative action and halt the Court's efforts, under Kennedy, to gradually rein in capital punishment.
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The campaign in question, 1 Malaysia, called for reforms to affirmative action in the name of national unity.
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They denounced him for his description of Hawaii's affirmative action for natives as a "naked racial spoils system".
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When Kennedy moved to the left on cases including abortion and affirmative action, Roberts dropped to the dissent.
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When you have affirmative action, they know their chances are higher, but it's also about a welcoming environment.
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This meant that four of the remaining seven justices had never voted to sustain an affirmative action program.
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And the argument that affirmative action programs are the constitutional equivalent of segregation has never made much sense.
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Texas, has said that the case for discrimination against Asians is the most compelling argument against affirmative action.
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Here's a primer on affirmative action to help you separate fact from fiction as you follow the debate.
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So could such an initiative, if indeed it's in the works, reverse or weaken schools' affirmative action polices?
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It would also have the potential to deal a serious blow to affirmative action efforts by elite colleges.
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Kennedy has played a similarly key role in an array of free speech, affirmative action, and federalism cases.
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Are too many Asian-Americans being unfairly held out of top universities and colleges because of affirmative action?
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But I disagree with Nicholas Kristof's statement that universities should not offer affirmative action for conservatives and evangelicals.
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Those who denounce affirmative action say it disadvantages minority groups that perform well academically, such as Asian-Americans.
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Represented by leading civil rights groups, they emphasized that racial affirmative action makes a difference for all students.
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"Affirmative action is part of a larger struggle," Randall Kennedy, a professor at Harvard Law School, told me.
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The court pleased conservatives by curtailing abortion rights and affirmative action, but without upending the status quo entirely.
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" A journalist for The Root cast threats to affirmative action as the restoration of "white-collar white supremacy.
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The challengers' goal is reversal of a 1978 Supreme Court landmark decision that first allowed racial affirmative action.
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Our country is full of people convinced that they've lost out through affirmative action to less-qualified minorities.
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Although King did not use the phrase "affirmative action" -- it was coined by Kennedy -- he supported the concept.
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Senators will ask a nominee's views on subjects ranging from abortion rights to marriage equality to affirmative action.
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Anthony Kennedy was hardly an uncritical supporter of affirmative action in public employment, education admissions, or other realms.
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Imagine the scorn Scalia would have heaped on Kennedy for both his reconsidered abortion and affirmative action positions.
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Berkeley eliminated affirmative action in graduate and professional schools in 1996 and in its undergraduate school in 1998.
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The release of new documents also fortified Democrats' questions about his views on affirmative action and government surveillance.
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He voted consistently against affirmative action before upholding the University of Texas's race-conscious admissions policy in 2016.
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But given the overwhelming backlash against affirmative action, I am not optimistic that this is a realistic possibility.
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently called for "affirmative action" licensing for entrepreneurs of color in the marijuana industry.
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If you ask Americans whether they favor affirmative action for racial minorities, most of them say they do.
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We can never forget that the president of the United States must not be an affirmative action position.
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Concerns over affirmative action fraud have plagued some of the most prestigious university programs, fostering unease on campuses.
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If a lawsuit over affirmative action is successful, would-be college students may have to hide their race.
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To be an affirmative action hire for many of us of that generation was a badge of honor.
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"The court's jurisprudence on affirmative action and abortion have been administered last rites many times," Professor Driver said.
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A white carpenter once asked him why, "if we are equal," there was a need for affirmative action.
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This has helped turn them more aggressively, she argues, against affirmative action and policies that assist displaced migrants.
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Opinion Columnist Affirmative action is a thorny issue, an imperfect tool to push society toward more perfect equality.
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The simple truth is that prosperous communities, good schools and savvy guidance counselors constitute affirmative action for whites.
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The anti-affirmative-action radicalism of the Justice Department's memo is wrapped in misleading language of fair play.
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Consider that in the mid-1960s, Jim Crow practices were still being dismantled and affirmative action hardly existed.
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Undoing affirmative action now would reverse the gains we have made and dim the prospects for greater progress.
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The affirmative action rule issued earlier this month will protect people with disabilities who work for federal agencies.
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Mr. Innis called affirmative action programs "morally corrupt" and promised to sit with the Republicans if he won.
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The university is the subject of an investigation by the US Justice Department into its affirmative action policies.
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"I thought this was settled," said Anthony P. Carnevale, an economist at Georgetown University who studies affirmative action.
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I.O. They supported affirmative-action admissions because they wanted universities to produce educated people for a diversified workforce.
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Whether you support or oppose affirmative action, the policy is almost literally the least these schools can do.
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Only eight states ban race-based admissions for public institutions, and affirmative action policies remain in wide use.
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I was teaching a class on affirmative action at Harvard, and we were discussing the phrase 'visible minority.
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University of Texas at Austin, which represented the Court's latest chance to address affirmative action in college admissions.
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Ultimately, California voters, riding a wave of conservatism, voted to dismantle affirmative action in public universities in 1996.
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Affirmative action programs, though they have generated deep resentments among upper castes, have helped some Dalits escape poverty.
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Like I've said, these anti–affirmative action Chinese folks are a small minor segment, but they're very loud.
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The courts grappled with the problems of quotas during the college admissions affirmative action wars of the 1990s.
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Or you hear the fear is that affirmative action is leaving no space for white kids in colleges.
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Affirmative action is a federal policy that levels the playing field for underrepresented communities in college admission processes.
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Anthony Kennedy is hardly an uncritical supporter of affirmative action in public employment, education admissions, or other realms.
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Additionally, affirmative action will not do away with legacy admissions that are more likely available to white applicants.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled universities may use affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college.
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But even at the time, affirmative action opponents saw the strict conditions for affirmative action programs as a silver lining of the loss, because they could be the basis of future lawsuits: The Justice Department could also investigate whether colleges are meeting those requirements when they consider race in admissions.
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If you combine that with Zhao's rhetoric that affirmative action penalizes them in favor of black and Hispanic applicants, you can see how they might believe the US is anti-Asian: Zhao says the way to address racial discrimination is to remove all race-based policies, echoing other affirmative action opponents.
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But the fight about affirmative action, especially around elite schools, gets so charged because it's not just about education.
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The Congress that passed the 14th Amendment adopted many programs that today we would call race-conscious affirmative action.
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They are in favor of affirmative action if you can dunk the basketball or sink a 3-point shot.
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Previously, affirmative action was considered a remedy to the effects of structural racism and discrimination that affected marginalized groups.
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This view has entirely overtaken our debate about affirmative action -- a matter before the Supreme Court again this year.
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He joined with liberal justices, for example, to protect gay rights and to preserve affirmative action in higher education.
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If the Trump administration wants to dismantle affirmative action with nonwhite plaintiffs, it won't be hard to find some.
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Dr. Mahathir was the architect of the affirmative action program for Malays, who were discriminated against during British rule.
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On May 9, the Breitbart tech editor sent Saucier a full draft of the class-based affirmative action story.
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Legal experts believe the case could end up in U.S. Supreme Court and have wide implications regarding affirmative action.
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In recent years, some anti-affirmative action groups have shifted their focus to allege discrimination against Asian American students.
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Confusion abounds--America's Supreme Court has offered contradictory guidance as to when affirmative action is and is not allowed.
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Affirmative action is an essential tool for any school that wants to create a diverse and inclusive student body.
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A system that does not use affirmative action does not adequately reflect or correct for the racism students encounter.
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The agency is pushing for the adoption of a bill that would introduce affirmative action for women in politics.
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Description: Gender-neutral toilets, quotas for women on boards, affirmative action at universities, #MeToo, banning words that cause offence.
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You can say that their frustration with affirmative action is coming from the same forces that brought up Trump.
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Of course, it's easier to abolish affirmative action than to change the tax code or pass the health bill.
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So when you open admission to that many people, you don't need affirmative action, because you get diversity anyway.
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From abortion and affirmative action, to immigration and contraceptive coverage, hot button issues have dominated the Court this year.
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Affirmative action is one of the few non-academic criteria of admission that attempts to reduce inequality in access.
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The University of Texas faced a tough uphill climb in defending its affirmative action program before the Supreme Court.
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Whatever you think of the policy arguments surrounding affirmative action, the question is whether the programs are constitutionally permitted.
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Affirmative action ensured that that door was propped open wide enough for us to be represented in substantial numbers.
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Affirmative action has "had many good effects," and Hollywood has helped "normalize" homosexuality in American families and public life.
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He mockingly invites her back on the show, "I'm sure you'll tell us everybody wins" referring to affirmative action.
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At stake are the spoils from a policy of identity-based benefits, the equivalent of America's "affirmative action" programmes.
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The White House on Wednesday declined to confirm reporting that the administration would investigate affirmative action in college admissions.
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That said, far too many schools have become satisfied with focusing on raw admissions numbers based on Affirmative Action.
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I wrote against sacred cows, such as the cult of diversity, affirmative action, conspicuous compassion and radical participatory democracy.
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He wrote the decision declaring a right to gay marriage and has endorsed abortion rights and campus affirmative action.
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Mr. Unz and the other three candidates have written or testified extensively against affirmative action, opposing race-based admissions.
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The Times mentioned "blacks and Chicanos-Latinos," implying that Asian-Americans were jeopardizing the university's fragile affirmative-action system.
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They often decry efforts, like affirmative action, to address racial inequality explicitly, claiming that such policies undermine black success.
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Now, voters have the chance to overturn that initiative and reinstitute affirmative action in educational, employment or contracting purposes.
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But the scare has led defenders of affirmative action to wonder what would happen if the current order fell.
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Affirmative action has already been banned in eight states, representing more than a quarter of America's high-school students.
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Wade; fewer university options for affirmative action; greater scrutiny for environmental regulations; and a tougher stance on criminal defendants.
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Support for affirmative action programs for both women and minorities is growing among people questioned in a new poll.
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At the University of Colorado at Boulder, students were prevented from holding an "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" on campus.
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There are fewer studies of graduate or professional schools, but most show that affirmative action has no detrimental effects.
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Hill.TV host Buck Sexton said Thursday that the Supreme Court could scrap affirmative action before overturning Roe v. Wade.
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University of Texas, decided late last week, Kennedy supplied the deciding vote to uphold the university's affirmative action plan.
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Over the past several decades, the affirmative action debate has been a cyclical fixture of the American political discourse.
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There is no way to understand these programs and their implementation other than a form of white affirmative action.
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Bakke, the Court held — in a regrettable move — that affirmative action was the equivalent of Jim Crow race discrimination.
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His retirement means huge changes could be coming on hot-button issues: abortion, same-sex marriage and affirmative action.
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Events like these, which went largely unnoticed by the press, began to reshape how Chinese immigrants understood affirmative action.
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For previous generations of Asian-American activists, affirmative action was a key component in the struggle for multiracial justice.
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Read more from The Hill: Trump: 'I don't like' what Scalia said about affirmative action View the discussion thread.
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They knew that "affirmative action," whatever its benefits as a form of social engineering, was a synonym for mediocrity.
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Past Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action limited the use of race in college admissions without banning it outright.
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But if it is appealed, the Supreme Court could have a chance to revisit the law on affirmative action.
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The elite colleges can become more diverse with affirmative action and by eliminating advantages for the children of alumni.
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Imposing an absolute requirement that a nominee be a particular gender and race is effectively an affirmative action pledge.
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In late 2014, the group interviewed and endorsed four Republican candidates for the State Legislature who opposed affirmative action.
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Chinese-Americans, most of whom voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, are split on whether to support affirmative action.
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Among other Asian-Americans over that time, backing for affirmative action has remained consistent, at nearly three in four.
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Doubting Thomas: The best reason to oppose affirmative action for college admissions is that is just does not work.
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The Trump administration's latest move is in line with a long tradition of weaponized conservative outrage toward affirmative action.
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The failure of Fisher has not deterred others, including potentially our current president, from seeking to dismantle affirmative action.
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Natasha Warikoo, a professor of education at Harvard who studies affirmative action, sees some parallels between the two lawsuits.
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Top universities need to end their policies of race-based affirmative action and turn them into socioeconomic-based policies.
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Prosecutors said he also falsified ethnicities and other biographical details in some cases, to take advantage of affirmative action.
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At the time, I didn't understand just how pernicious it was to think about affirmative action in those terms.
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That hasn't stopped affirmative action opponents from using Espenshade — and from reaching for other arguments to make their case.
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Yes, some students fail after they have been favored by affirmative action, but it has been a resounding success!
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The road traveled to Harvard was paved with hard work, sacrifice and, yes, presumably the help of affirmative action.
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Barack Obama pursued several progressive measures — in the areas of immigration, affirmative action and campus speech — on his own.
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More than most regions, Latin America has used affirmative-action laws to close the gender gap in political leadership.
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Like many of his generation, Mr. Kondo, who graduated from Brown University, said he was supportive of affirmative action.
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Several minorities shared stories about what they perceived as common misconceptions about affirmative action and race-based admissions policies.
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We also compiled the best writing from the right and left about the Justice Department's moves on affirmative action.
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Affirmative action has also become a symbol, maybe the most powerful symbol for some whites, of African-American advancement.
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That language invoked the view, held by some conservatives, that affirmative action-style programs amount to discrimination against whites.
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"Hateful" views may include opposing affirmative action, supporting a Republican or suggesting that America is a land of opportunity.
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Affirmative action survived in 2016 because Justice Scalia's replacement was not seated at the time of the Fisher ruling.
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The marketplace matters because the biggest defenders of affirmative action are not the N.A.A.C.P. and the Democratic National Committee.
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The affirmative action program, termed the "reservation" system, transformed life for many in the lower caste groups in India.
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The chances for dramatic change on such issues as abortion rights and affirmative action hinge on their continued service.
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In prior affirmative action cases, the Court has allowed colleges to include race as one factor in assessing applicants.
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Those phrases are part of the rhetorical toolkit opponents of affirmative action have long used to attack the policy.
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The Supreme Court is expected eventually to take up an ongoing case centering on Harvard University's affirmative action policies.
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In so doing it would hardly eliminate racial disadvantage, but then again neither has 50 years of affirmative action.
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Like Fisher, the SFFA lawsuit seeks to dismantle affirmative action, but the strategy for this case is slightly different.
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Their reticence also stems from their exclusion from affirmative action despite the fact they, too, experience bias and discrimination.
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The Washington Post reported yesterday on comments that he made in 1975 expressing skepticism over desegregation and affirmative action.
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Three major rationales are usually offered for affirmative action on the grounds of race or gender in the academy.
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If this leads to schools pulling back affirmative action programs, this will likely hurt both black and Latino students.
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An ongoing lawsuit challenging the consideration of race in admissions could harm the use of affirmative action in education.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that universities may use affirmative action to help minority applicants get into college.
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SFFA is headed by prominent anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum, who found the woman in the 2016 case.
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The question itself is dubious considering the fact that other forms of affirmative action, including gender, are rarely mentioned.
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A look at the effects of affirmative action bans also suggests the idea is based on a false dichotomy.
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If anything, the dismantling of affirmative action is launched at people of color, but it affects white women, too.
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It was a significant change at an institution where minority enrollment plunged after Michigan voters banned affirmative action in 2071.
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And while opponents of affirmative action point to other ways to achieve diversity, Kennedy thought they may not be sufficient.
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So do I really want a black who will say, 'I'm ending affirmative action, or this that and the other'?
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But, with the Supreme Court asserting the legality of affirmative action, what is there to fear from using the phrase?
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The court is also due to rule on a case on affirmative action in college admission policies in Fisher v.
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Last August, Google fired James Damore shortly after the engineer's internal screed against affirmative action at the company went viral.
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Decisions in any of three big pending cases on affirmative action, abortion, and immigration could come as soon as Monday.
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The dean of the business school, Glenn Hubbard, brought Ravina's complaint to the university's Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action office.
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Diversifying what constitutes affirmative action could also shield institutions from being sued by the Department of Justice under Trump's guidance.
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The new case joins a crowded docket, including cases on abortion, affirmative action, public unions, voting rights and religious liberty.
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The DMK pioneered caste-based affirmative action and other social programmes, often forcefully, that changed the lives of every Tamil.
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Mr Kavanaugh worked on the George W. Bush administration's opposition to the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative-action policy.
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" Even when striking previous affirmative action programs, Kennedy reiterated "approval of giving appropriate consideration to race in this one context.
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Now, however, the decline of racial restrictions in the labor market and the spread of affirmative action have changed that.
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I think that it's really important not to confuse these two things, because there's no affirmative action vote with Louise.
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"Affirmative action" policies, which discriminate in favour of members of disadvantaged groups, are widespread in America and many other countries.
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He has supported a government interest in diversity but has yet to rule in favor of an affirmative action plan.
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To step backward for a moment, what exactly are we talking about when we talk about affirmative action in 2017?
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Four decades after a landmark US Supreme Court ruling, affirmative action that brings diversity to college campuses has become entrenched.
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Liberals should recognize that conservative opposition to affirmative action, welfare and taxation is not due to racism, callousness, or greed.
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He staunchly opposed abortion rights and affirmative action; limits on campaign spending, gay rights and separation of church and state.
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Kennedy, a centrist conservative, has cast a key vote for gay marriage, abortion rights, affirmative action, and fair housing law.
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U.S. conservatives have said that in helping black and Latino applicants, affirmative action can hurt white people and Asian-Americans.
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While Thomas opposes affirmative action, his tenure on the Court is actually an object lesson in the value of diversity.
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The Supreme Court has ruled universities may use affirmative action with the aim of helping minority applicants get into college.
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Other commentators make similar dire prognostications about affirmative action in college admissions, voting rights, and application of the death penalty.
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He opposed a constitutional right to gay marriage, for example, and has voted against affirmative action and other racial remedies.
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This month, party leaders there plan to adopt a new platform that would more frequently voice support for affirmative action.
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Both cases were engineered by conservative activist Edward Blum, who for years had sought white plaintiffs to challenge affirmative action.
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Justice Kagan will not be recused in future affirmative-action cases, and there is no serious doubt about her perspective.
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The group is also behind a pending challenge to affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
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For the first time, American voters were given the chance to weigh in on large-scale affirmative-action policies. Prop.
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This pick could have implications for decades on such hot-button issues as abortion, same-sex marriage and affirmative action.
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And he dissented when a narrowly divided court's rulings meant liberal victories on gay rights, abortion rights and affirmative action.
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College admissions experts are cheering the decision to uphold affirmative action in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Harvard complaint also argues that affirmative action policies have the effect of discriminating against high-achieving Asian-American applicants.
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One week ago, Kennedy was also the decisive voice in a case upholding race-based affirmative action in university admissions.
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University of Texas at Austin, Justice Anthony Kennedy finally found an affirmative action plan to like, or at least uphold.
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But how much should the court poke its nose into the government's justifications for affirmative action in the first place?
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On Wednesday she called Noor an "affirmative-action hire by the hijab-wearing mayor of Minneapolis," the Star Tribune reported.
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Trump's Supreme Court could look skeptically at voter suppression claims, and could end affirmative action in public institutions for good.
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It is clear that any Supreme Court ruling that erodes affirmative action would be to the detriment of black students.
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Even after decades of reviewing preferential admissions policies, there is still no consensus regarding how affirmative action impacts black students.
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Under the compelling interest standard, the Court effectively rejected affirmative action designed to remedy societal discrimination as too vaguely justified.
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I mention this as the most significant legal battle over affirmative action in recent years unfolds in a Boston courtroom.
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He later returned to Bloomington as a special assistant to the president of Indiana University and an affirmative action coordinator.
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I now recognize that the benefits of the racial and ethnic diversity that affirmative action produces are shared by everyone.
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There are proposals to get around the affirmative action controversy by ignoring race and instead paying attention to economic disadvantage.
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In the 223s, when affirmative action was under legal challenge in Texas and newly banned by referendum in California, Prof.
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This is a twisted reflection of affirmative action, which helps those who have managed to achieve excellence despite daunting hurdles.
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The mechanisms of affirmative action for wealthy white people are so well-oiled that few would know to name it.
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In my opinion, the most compelling argument for affirmative action is access to resources and to social and economic networks.
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Again, this is my concern that users currently may not know or take affirmative action to protect their own privacy.
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If so, you shouldn't support affirmative action, since it allows admitting minorities rather than whites precisely because of their race.
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According to them, racism ended in 2008 and policies like affirmative action, however limited, now actually discriminate against white people.
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The California case is aimed at exploring whether affirmative action is actually hurting the students it is supposed to help.
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TG: Something Kristof floats is this idea of affirmative action for conservatives, noting that conservatives themselves wouldn't stand for that.
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It's affirmative action for the aristocracy, although it's never referred to or criticized as a betrayal of the meritocratic ideal.
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That case went to the Supreme Court, and many believed it would finally strike down affirmative action — but it didn't.
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It is wrong to include the term "regrets" in the headline of a discussion of affirmative action, journalistic balance notwithstanding.
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Affirmative action in university admissions is a complex issue about educational policy and the continuing significance of race in America.
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Mr. Salovey accused the Justice Department of undertaking the inquiry as part of a larger plan to dismantle affirmative action.
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While most Asian-Americans support affirmative action, many Chinese-Americans do not, and they have been vigorous in their opposition.
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Nationally, the issue of affirmative action in college admissions, particularly in the Ivy League, has fractured the Asian-American community.
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But that framing obscures the reality of national surveys that show that most Asian-Americans favor affirmative action in education.
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Debates over affirmative action sometimes turn into arguments with other minority groups over who is more oppressed, obscuring common struggles.
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In Washington State, voters will decide with a ballot measure in November whether to keep affirmative action at public colleges.
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Those five letters are also what many college admissions officers use as the basis for establishing diversity through affirmative action.
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Urofsky claims not to make the case for or against affirmative action but admits to being "conflicted" on the matter.
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It is in academia that affirmative action battles have been most ferociously fought, and Urofsky devotes two chapters to this.
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" The editors at The San Francisco Chronicle argue that Justice Department's decision to examine affirmative action "plays to racial resentment.
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I think as you went on, and as it deepened, it deepened through new measures like affirmative action and busing.
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The case was "one of the biggest legal challenges to affirmative action in years," Anemona Hartocollis of the NYT writes.
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Apart from stone-cold racists, everyone is happy, or claims to be happy, with affirmative action in the first sense.
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Of the people who like racial diversity but don't like affirmative action in the preferential sense, there are two types.
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It refused to release the report, thus allowing politicians to go on telling the public that affirmative action didn't work.
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College leaders and higher education policymakers should be thinking about how they can evolve and improve their affirmative action policies.
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I haven't mentioned affirmative action, terrorism, the military, Social Security or free trade, but I'll leave it there for now.
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Israeli universities do not discriminate against anyone; on the contrary, they have affirmative-action programs for Muslim and black students.
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The fate of affirmative action in the Fisher case looked even more perilous, because Elena Kagan recused herself from participating.
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Discourse around affirmative action The scandal has hit a nerve, going beyond discussions about elitism and raising issues of race.
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The outrage over the scam laid out by federal prosecutors has opened a new battleground in the affirmative action war.
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The affirmative action rule issued earlier this month is intended to protect people with disabilities who work for federal agencies.
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However, the phrasing "intentional race-based discrimination" is geared toward affirmative action programs that aim to recruit more minority students.
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To actively prevent this from happening isn't discrimination for the greater good, as affirmative action was originally intended to be.
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This could mean a political climate in which reservations about such multiculturalist policies as affirmative action are voiced more strenuously.
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And so my question in my research at this point is how are Asian Americans actually actively fighting affirmative action?
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They aren't particularly religious and generally agree with the Democratic Party on social issues, like abortion, affirmative action and immigration.
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Based on the 2016 National Asian American Survey, we found that Asian immigrants are least likely to support affirmative action.
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In fact, later-generation Asians are more likely to support affirmative action than Asian immigrants by a factor of three.
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Before his essay on men and consent, he had written for Vox on the Trump administration's attacks on affirmative action.
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Not for fellow progressives who can't seem to say that they support affirmative action, but that Harvard also messed up.
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That recusal didn't seem very consequential when it looked like there were five firm Republican votes to kill affirmative action.
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Laws that restrict affirmative action have also complicated attempts to account for the racial biases of the war on drugs.
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He asserted that affirmative action hurts African-American students by putting them in elite institutions they are not prepared for.
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With federal agencies now stocked with long-standing opponents to affirmative action (from Ken Marcus, the head of the ED's Civil Rights Division, to Candice Jackson, also at the ED, who once wrote that affirmative action "promotes racial discrimination"), AACE has finally found a willing partner in its quest to dismantle race-based admissions policies.
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While the Public Works Administration temporarily followed racially proportional hiring practices (which were dismantled at the end of World War II), it wasn't until President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order in 1961 requiring affirmative action to counter employment discrimination among federal contractors, with specific attention to race, that affirmative action was institutionalized.
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The turn to the right many expected, with cases on affirmative action, abortion, and public sector unions, for instance, never happened.
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Caltech, a top university without race-based affirmative action, saw its share of Asian-Americans increase dramatically over the same period.
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This is, at best, a specific narrow case of affirmative action, repurposed to address a problem rooted in claims to reparations.
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To call affirmative action reparations is to extend the moral superiority of the latter to the mundane application of the former.
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In 1996 came Proposition 1003 outlawing affirmative action, and then two years later Proposition 227 restricted bilingual education in public schools.
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His successor will take the place of a rigid conservative on issues such as abortion rights, affirmative action and gay marriage.
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Wade, criminalize abortion, gut the Affordable Care Act, roll back LGBTQ rights, end affirmative action, and chip away at voting rights.
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The affirmative action trial brought against Harvard by Students for Fair Admissions revealed one of Harvard's deepest secrets — its admissions process.
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Some critics complain that King's class-based approach to affirmative action ignores the reality that race still matters in American society.
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But King's policy, which coupled strong enforcement of anti-discrimination laws with class-based affirmative action, does nothing of the sort.
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People who oppose affirmative action say schools prioritize people from other racial backgrounds and penalize Asian students for their academic achievements.
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On Tuesday, a federal judge in Massachusetts upheld Harvard's undergraduate affirmative action program against a high-profile suit challenging that program.
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Another source of tension is the lack of agreement within the coalition on the affirmative-action policies enshrined in the constitution.
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When questioned about his views on race and affirmative action, Kavanaugh was just as vague as he was on other topics.
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Many of the groups favoured by affirmative action have grown more prosperous or done better educationally since these policies were introduced.
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Although the groups covered by affirmative action tend to be poorer than their neighbours, the individuals who benefit are often not.
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It could eventually mean a rollback of liberal precedents for abortion rights, campus affirmative action, and protections based on sexual orientation.
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If affirmative action is erased from Harvard's admissions process, with it will go the futures of many brilliant students of color.
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We'll use gun control as our example, but we would say similar things about abortion rights, affirmative action, or religious freedom.
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If he hangs up his robe, his replacement will almost certainly share the four-justice conservative bloc's distaste for affirmative action.
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For Chinese-American immigrants, meanwhile, affirmative action in the West and policies supposedly favoring minorities at home came to seem parallel.
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The death of Antonin Scalia, a staunch foe of affirmative action, didn't necessarily figure to make a difference in Fisher v.
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If the Trump administration puts federal resources toward opposition to affirmative action, Greenbaum said, it could dramatically shift the playing field.
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The docket is packed with opportunities to roll back liberal gains involving voting rights, abortion, immigration, affirmative action and public unions.
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There is potentially a lot at stake in the coming years, including abortion rights, health care, gay rights, and affirmative action.
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Their demands for government jobs and student places are based on affirmative action policies that are typically reserved for deprived groups.
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Outbreaks of violent protests have raked into an ugly spotlight the views of those people who are dissatisfied with affirmative action.
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The Trump administration is taking aim at affirmative action programs it believes "discriminate against white applicants," reports The New York Times.
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All three realms were proudly and self-consciously diverse, although carefully so—Michigan had been sued over its affirmative-action program.
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Affirmative action helped bring marginalized groups into the public work force; there, they benefited from more public scrutiny of employment practices.
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"This argument comes on the heels of the administration's decision to reverse the Obama-era guidance on affirmative action," ACLU said.
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Their example shows that the end of formal race-based affirmative action might not be as apocalyptic as its defenders fear.
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If confirmed, he would replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy's swing vote on social issues like abortion, affirmative action and LGBT rights.
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While the ruling is a win for supporters of affirmative action, the court did express some reservations about race-based admissions.
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At that time, 53 percent of Americans supported affirmative action programs for women and 47 percent supported the programs for minorities.
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Surprise: This time, Justice Kennedy explained exactly why, in his view, the status quo on affirmative action should remain the law.
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I'm not sure whether it is or isn't, but I do think universities should be allowed to experiment with affirmative action.
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They were issued to provide guidance on the administration's interpretation of a number of Supreme Court cases related to affirmative action.
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He unabashedly endorsed a variety of race-based policies, on questions ranging from teacher diversity to affirmative action in college admissions.
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Past presidents have used that authority to bar discrimination in the hiring of federal contract employees and to promote affirmative action.
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Now that it has again upheld the constitutionality of affirmative action, even past opponents should acknowledge the bankruptcy of mismatch theory.
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" "I'm actually much more confident that affirmative action is not going to be with us much longer than say Roe v.
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I did not realize back in 1991 that in 85033, affirmative action — which Thomas opposed — would still be a polarizing issue.
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Advocating for affirmative action through the prism of diversity may be more politically palatable, but it will inevitably yield insufficient results.
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Justice Kennedy, long the pivotal swing vote on the Court and a skeptic of affirmative action, voted to uphold UT's policy.
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"People can choose to negate biases, or go further and take affirmative action," Kalai said, or they could make it worse.
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Now, read the article, "Harvard's Admissions Process, Once Secret, Is Unveiled in Affirmative Action Trial," and answer the following questions: 1.
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We must accept that gerrymandering, voter suppression, affirmative action and many more kinds of cases will be decided on political grounds.
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Tensions rise when one classmate accuses him of unfairly benefiting from affirmative action and another dresses as a Klansman for Halloween.
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Affirmative action has come under attack, with college admissions viewed as a zero-sum game: What one group gains, another loses.
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For example, he said, the Trump administration may challenge affirmative action policies — something the Justice Department may be preparing to do.
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Division III athletics allowed a regressive system of affirmative action for the demographic that needs it the least: white wealthy males.
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Participants became more conservative on topics like affirmative action and immigration, as well as on defense spending and health care reform.
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Thus, whatever one's views on affirmative action, this new score introduces an inscrutable redundancy — one that cannot be disputed or appealed.
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The College Board's plan comes as challenges to affirmative action are making their way through the courts or in federal investigations.
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I think I've made a strong case for affirmative action, although I can see how some readers might reasonably oppose it.
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They've managed to make the affirmative action debate about Asian Americans — and white people — being victims of a zero-sum game.
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When there's even a hint that your race can help or hurt your chances of success, support for affirmative action plummets.
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That's why the stories we tell about affirmative action — especially the characters we cast and the roles we accept — are crucial.
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Mr. Blum, 250, has orchestrated more than two dozen lawsuits challenging affirmative action practices and voting rights laws across the country.
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And in the past decades, affirmative action has created a strong Dalit middle class, which is not keen to be humiliated.
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The document does not explicitly identify whom the Justice Department considers at risk of discrimination because of affirmative action admissions policies.
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It is frustrating that the battle to protect affirmative action eats resources and time needed for other, urgent racial justice demands.
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So this myth about affirmative action being about unqualified black and brown folks getting something they don't deserve -- that's Donald Trump.
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It's worth noting that while opponents of affirmative action say the practice hurts Asian Americans, most Asian Americans support the practice.
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Critics of affirmative action say that in some cases it goes too far in discriminating against white and Asian-American applicants.
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Our legal reporter says abortion rights and affirmative action appear secure for now, but unions and environmentalists have cause for concern.
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In 2014, a group that opposes affirmative action sued Harvard, accusing it of discriminating against Asian-Americans in its admissions process.
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It is led by Edward Blum, a longtime activist against affirmative-action policies in areas ranging from education to voting rights.
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When Reagan made noises about abolishing affirmative-action requirements, the National Association of Manufacturers lobbied him to leave the program alone.
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But if Asians are being held back, it's not so much because of affirmative action but because of preference for whites.
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Despite good intentions, too many now follow admission policies resulting in affirmative action for the rich and discrimination against the poor.
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Thandiwe Dee Watts-Jones, New Rochelle, N.Y. Howard's article reminded me of the advantages I was given because of affirmative action.
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Both sides have an eye toward the Supreme Court, which first allowed for racial affirmative action in a landmark 1978 case.
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Thanks to his vote, the Court rejected Texas's restrictions on abortion clinics and upheld the affirmative-action plan at the university.
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This month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it would investigate and potentially sue universities over affirmative action policies in admissions.
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Kennedy cast the decisive vote the last time the Supreme Court took up a case against racial affirmative action on campus.
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The conservative majority on the high court won't shy away from the movement's goal of abolishing affirmative action in college admissions.
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Hess, like some other affirmative action opponents, says he opposes preferential treatment for children of affluent families and donors in admissions.
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That pattern is likely to continue as the Supreme Court revisits election rules and redistricting, as well as university affirmative action.
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With Fisher, he effectively became the one vote holding together the Court's majority defending affirmative action in at least some cases.
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They see all of this talk about Black Lives Matter and the importance of diversity, including through policies like affirmative action.
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The latest attack on affirmative action comes in the form of a lawsuit that alleges Harvard is discriminating against Asian Americans.
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The primary distinction between the two decisions had to do with the weight given to race in affirmative action admissions policies.
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On race issues, Thomas has been a decisive vote to restrict affirmative action programs designed to help minorities overcome past discrimination.
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Justice Anthony Kennedy's evolution on affirmative action "Kennedy's evolution matters because at least for the moment, his is the decisive vote on this and subsequent challenges that are already in the pipeline, on the constitutionality of race-based affirmative action programs," said Steve Vladeck, a CNN contributor and professor of law at American University Washington College of Law.
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The DOJ is looking into a years-old complaint about affirmative action The DOJ is looking into a years-old complaint about affirmative action The Department of Justice is looking for lawyers to investigate a 2015 complaint against Harvard University for anti-Asian-American discrimination in its admissions policy, according to a statement from the department on Wednesday.
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In 22013, Michigan voters took their own stand on the matter, in a referendum banning affirmative action at public colleges and universities.
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It wasn't a high-profile issue like abortion or affirmative action -- this case dealt with a former police officer charged with conspiracy.
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Those who oppose affirmative action are presumed to be bigots who want to prevent women and minorities from advancing socially and economically.
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And a divided court must render decisions on abortion-clinic access, affirmative action at universities and Mr. Obama's executive actions on immigration.
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To put it another way, in the space of week, Kennedy saved both affirmative action and abortion rights -- an extraordinary liberal perfecta.
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The book examines the ways subtle racism like suspicious looks or complaints about affirmative action paint everyday life for many black Americans.
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Those areas could include access to abortion, affirmative action and LGBT rights -- all issues making their way up to the high court.
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Thus the court created a new compromise: Affirmative action in admissions was permissible, but only if it was used to foster diversity.
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The days when Democrats like Jim Webb could call affirmative action "state-sponsored racism" (as he did in 22016) are long gone.
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Affirmative action policies, first enacted in the 1960s, were initially viewed as tools meant to address the continuing impacts of racial discrimination.
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Requiring that kind of affirmative action by a supermajority of Congress would "flip the foreign emoluments clause on its head," Gorod said.
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Some, including groups like Asian Americans Advancing Justice, said they are being used by conservatives as a wedge to abolish affirmative action.
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Why it matters: The suit could influence how race and affirmative action laws impact college application processes and decisions in the future.
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How would I feel if, on the job, I knew that everyone assumed that I got that job because of affirmative action?
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I would also love to see the laws changed around quotas, as affirmative action policies like that are illegal in our country.
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The district created a more complicated formula for race-based admissions, but a federal appeals court voided affirmative action there in 1998.
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"Put in other words, it would make much more sense to implement affirmative action for men than for women," he told Refinery29.
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Nurul Izzah, daughter of Mr Anwar and a champion of reform in PKR, advises caution when it comes to changing affirmative action.
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A tweaking of affirmative action policies is possible, perhaps to ensure that benefits go more to poor Malays, rather than government cronies.
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Instead of waging war on racial discrimination, the Trump administration is, in line with Murray's recommendations, waging war on affirmative action policies.
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Bollinger, the 2003 case that found affirmative action was constitutional if used as part of a holistic review of an applicant's credentials.
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In the recently completed Supreme Court term, significant rulings on abortion rights and university affirmative action relied on precedents crafted by O'Connor.
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His record and rhetoric suggest that Judge Kavanaugh is more likely to uphold restrictions on affirmative action and on abortion, for example.
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Does anyone think Trump believes he has a mandate to roll back abortion laws, repeal gay marriage, or wipe out affirmative action?
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Supreme Court divided in University of Texas affirmative action case Scalia's comments at oral arguments, however, have grabbed most of the attention.
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And it's easier to target affirmative action as a scapegoat than to make changes in the distribution of wealth and political power.
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During the Obama administration, the CBC also sought to force tech companies pursuing large federal contracts to adhere to affirmative action policies.
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He has shifted to the left more in recent years, such as to support abortion rights and racial affirmative action on campus.
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King may not have used the words "affirmative action" -- the term was coined by President Kennedy -- but he often supported the concept.
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Then there is the range of issues that Jezebel publishes, including articles on affirmative action, police shootings of black people, and ISIS.
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The current debate on affirmative action is playing out in the context of widespread anxieties about the changing face of the nation.
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The court has three major decisions left to decide before the justices take their summer break: on abortion, immigration and affirmative action.
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Meanwhile, party leaders in California plan to adopt a new platform this month that will more prominently voice support for affirmative action.
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A related affirmative-action challenge filed by Students for Fair Admissions is pending against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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"This is affirmative action gone wild," he wrote, and argued that the top 10 percent plan produced enough diversity on its own.
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In 2016, he voted with the court's liberals to defeat a long-running legal campaign that curbed affirmative action in higher education.
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But here's where it gets complicated: Supporters of affirmative action sent a measure repealing Initiative 2202 to the legislature earlier this year.
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While Bakke terminated affirmative action in its strongest form, it allowed for a moderate consideration of race as a factor in admissions.
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One of the most extreme examples came after a ban on affirmative action approved by California's voters came into effect in 1998.
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Three of the states with affirmative-action bans—Texas, California and Florida—try to mitigate their effects by using top-percent programmes.
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For example, Trump could provide financial incentives for universities to develop affirmative action programs to put more American students in graduate programs.
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When the court agreed to review this case again, I thought affirmative action at U.T., and perhaps across the country, was doomed.
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Nonetheless, the court rejected the argument that some other lower standard of scrutiny should apply to affirmative-action programs that benefit minorities.
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Universities support affirmative action for three reasons: Students want it, faculty members want it and many important alumni and donors want it.
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Their kids and grandkids study hard and get into the finest schools at a rate that skews the affirmative action race calculations.
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As a result, 25 documents were rescinded in December and 24 additional ones were rescinded Tuesday, including seven related to affirmative action.
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Two years ago, his votes upheld the use of affirmative action in college admissions and struck down burdensome restrictions on abortion rights.
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To assess the impact of affirmative action, they analyzed a database that followed the college careers of undergraduates from 28 selective schools.
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The court seldom confronts the volatile controversies that routinely engage the justices, like abortion, affirmative action, gay rights and the death penalty.
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His appointment could affect several critical cases currently up before the court, including decisions on affirmative action, immigration, and access to abortion.
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University of Texas, in which a white student claimed she was discriminated against because of her race and UT's affirmative action policies.
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Harvard is being sued in federal court by Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit that is challenging the legality of affirmative action.
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She was surprised to find that thirty of them, on both sides of the issue, couldn't accurately explain what affirmative action was.
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"My anxiety about this case is really with folks who think they're allies, and who say they support affirmative action," Poon said.
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Over the next decades, grumblings arose over government programs, from welfare to affirmative action, intended to target the effects of earlier wrongs.
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And I'm skeptical of the lawsuit against Harvard, which was brought by Asian-Americans who believe that affirmative action discriminates against them.
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University of Texas at Austin, the last major affirmative action case to go to the Supreme Court, which he lost in 2016.
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But this approach can't do the job of race-based affirmative action for a very simple reason: Most poor people are white.
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It may seem a small thing compared with Justice O'Connor's worries about the future of affirmative action and the right to abortion.
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Making the case for affirmative action requires admitting that the minority students chosen will not fully meet the standard criteria of admission.
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The idea that affirmative action doles out bonuses and penalties obscures the far more complicated reality of how the policy actually works.
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So that left only a single path for affirmative action to walk: Race could only be considered to create diversity on campuses.
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This latter frame — of people being hurt based on their race — is exactly how affirmative action opponents want to tell this story.
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Affirmative action and government contracting programs have similarly struggled to meet or skirt the court's strict scrutiny for applying benefits by race.
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In my experience, many Asian-Americans (like many Americans of all races) evaluate affirmative action on the basis of their nation's interest.
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He also makes dozens of appearances on college campuses a year, challenging students on everything from transgenderism to Obamacare to affirmative action.
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As a lawsuit challenging the use of affirmative action in admissions plays out, five freshmen reflect on why they beat the competition.
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I called my father, Jack Greenberg, a civil rights lawyer and longtime proponent of affirmative action, to harangue him about my situation.
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To address this problem less cynically, we should explicitly include a second dimension to our affirmative action efforts, based on economic status.
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The pending start of the affirmative action project — division lawyers who want to work on it must submit their résumés by Aug.
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Affirmative action has proved to be one of the most effective tools for expanding opportunity and promoting diversity for students of color.
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Although it has been relentlessly attacked over the past 40 years, affirmative action has undermined the racial exclusivity of our nation's universities.
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As Trump's first year in office comes to an end, here are three ways he became an affirmative action president, critics say.
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The Times said the Justice Department document does not explicitly say whom it considers at risk because of affirmative action admissions policies.
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Sonia Sotomayor, who became the first Latina justice in 2009, gave voice to her distinct experience in a 20103 affirmative action case.
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Affirmative action hasn't been held up as universally popular like background checks, and it has not fared well at the ballot box.
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The success of affirmative action in employment and university admissions has not eliminated the education and income gaps between whites and blacks.
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Bakke is a good example of the jurisprudential confusion around affirmative action: the Court managed to produce six opinions in that case.
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The whole history of affirmative action shows, as Urofsky somewhat reluctantly admits, that when the programs are shut down minority representation drops.
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In the United States, we often debate affirmative action as if this is the only country where these policies have been tried.
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For example, the largest nationally sponsored affirmative action program was established in India under British colonial rule in the late 19th century.
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Such narrow votes have been the pattern for Supreme Court disputes over affirmative action, beginning with the 5-4 Bakke in 1978.
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Ms. Kay, who favored affirmative action, complied with the law but tried to make up the difference by expanding Berkeley Law's outreach.
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Students for Fair Admissions, a group founded by affirmative action opponent Edward Blum, had accused Harvard of engaging in illegal racial balancing.
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The court has allowed affirmative action in several decisions, including its landmark 1978 ruling in Regents of the University of California v.
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The Trump administration will be taking aim at affirmative action programs it believes "discriminate against white applicants," reports The New York Times.
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Still, I've always supported affirmative action, though I'd much prefer that it was based on socio-economic disadvantage rather than race alone.
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Caste-based reservations are used in India in much the same way as race-based affirmative action is in the United States.
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"Some people have said wealth is affirmative action for white people," said Anthony Jack, an assistant professor of education at Harvard University.
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The authors predicted that Judge Gorsuch would likely vote to limit gay rights, uphold restrictions on abortion and overturn affirmative action programs.
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To begin with, the outcome of this case does not determine the future of affirmative action or race consciousness in college admissions.
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Yang talked about his views on affirmative action, the impact of climate change on Pacific Islanders, gender inequality and, of course, math.
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"The most satisfying part is that I managed to successfully separate what we were asking for from affirmative action," Mr. Wang said.
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