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Federal Court Rules In Favor of UNC in Use of Race in Admissions

JonathanTurley

However, there is a new ruling out of North Carolina that could present another opportunity for the Court to revisit the issue. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina just ruled that UNC can use race criteria to guarantee a “critical mass” of minority students in its classes. .”

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Affirmative Action Kicked Off Busy Week for SCOTUS

Constitutional Law Reporter

University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. The primary issue in both cases is whether the Court should reverse its decision in Grutter v. Decisions in all of the cases are expected before the Court’s term ends in June. Harvard College and SFFA v.

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“Bakke to the Future”: Supreme Court Reconsiders Affirmative Action with a conservative Majority

JonathanTurley

University of North Carolina. Here is the column: Forty-four years ago, the Supreme Court was the center of a raging protest by thousands as the justices took up the case of Regents of the University of California v. In Bakke, the court ruled against affirmative action in a fractured decision.

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Justices decline to reinstate GOP-backed congressional voting maps in North Carolina, Pennsylvania

SCOTUSBlog

Share The Supreme Court on Monday refused to block orders by courts in North Carolina and Pennsylvania that threw out the congressional maps enacted by the states’ Republican legislatures and replaced them with maps drawn by the trial courts. The North Carolina case.

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From Affirmative Action to Andy Warhol: Buckle up for a Wild Supreme Court Term

JonathanTurley

University of North Carolina. Bakke, the court has never achieved clarity on the constitutional use of race beyond barring any preference “for no reason other than race or ethnic origin.” On the same day, the court ruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v.

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The Gipper Model? Biden’s Pledge to Appoint a Black Female Justice Has Liberals Citing Reagan

JonathanTurley

As previously discussed in columns, the Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected such threshold exclusions on the basis of race or gender as raw discrimination. In 1977, the Court ruled in Regents of the University of California v. University of North Carolina.

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Court Rules Democrats Engaged in “Extreme Partisan Gerrymander” in Maryland

JonathanTurley

It is important to note that Republicans have also had courts rule against them in states like North Carolina and Pennsylvania). This is the first time that a congressional map has been thrown out in the history of the state. (It