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Sotomayor contended that those opposed to affirmative action policies could have either lobbied the boards of the state's universities to change their policies or, through the electoral process, changed the membership of the boards. She invokes the political-process doctrine, recognized in Hunter v. Erickson (1969) and Washington v.
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor blasted the Supreme Court majority decision Thursday that gutted the use of affirmative action on college admissions. In a fiery dissent that Sotomayor read ...
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have opposed affirmative action; the remaining three conservative justices had no track record of opposing affirmative action prior to the ruling, although a 1999 article Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in The Wall Street Journal signaled he would end it. The liberal Sotomayor has repeatedly and proudly ...
The decision is a landmark ruling on affirmative action in college admissions and comes nearly a decade after UNC’s legal battle over its policies began. ... In her dissent, Sotomayor said the ...
The Supreme Court's recent ruling to overturn affirmative action means that Colleges and universities can no longer consider race in admission policies. Here how the ruling affects students.
Concurrence/dissent: Total = 21: Bench opinions = 19: Opinions relating to orders = 2: In-chambers opinions = 0: Unanimous opinions: 5: Most joined by: Ginsburg (12) Least joined by: Scalia (5 in full, 2 in part)
The Supreme Court in a pair of cases Thursday severely limited the use of race as a factor in college admissions, upending decades of affirmative action programs that U.S. institutions have used ...
Dissent: 4 Concurrence/dissent: Total = ... Sotomayor concurred in the Court's grant of certiorari before judgment and dissented from the Court's deferral of ...