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Eugene

(61,900 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:04 PM Mar 2013

Supreme Court agrees to hear Michigan affirmative action case

Source: Reuters

By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON | Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:36am EDT

(Reuters) - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to consider a Michigan law that bans affirmative action in public college admissions.

The consideration of race in the admissions process, aimed at correcting past racial discrimination, is deeply unpopular in conservative circles.

In November, a sharply divided 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati found that the 2006 state constitutional amendment banning the practice, approved by voters in Michigan, imposed burdens on racial minorities in violation of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection. The state challenged the ruling in the Supreme Court.

The Michigan law bans preferential treatment toward any candidates in public university admissions.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/25/us-usa-court-affirmative-idUSBRE92O0GM20130325

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Supreme Court agrees to hear Michigan affirmative action case (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2013 OP

I wish one of those right wing nuts on the court would have a heart attack bigdarryl Mar 2013 #1

The case was decided John2 Mar 2013 #2

bigdarryl

(13,190 posts)

1. I wish one of those right wing nuts on the court would have a heart attack

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 12:31 PM

Mar 2013

So we can get a progressive on this court.It's pretty apparent that they are taking up these Affirmative action cases so they can further strike down the laws to suit there right wing base.

John2

(2,730 posts)

2. The case was decided

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2013, 01:47 PM

Mar 2013

in favor of Universities using race for the purpose of diversity because it bought different views to the learning environment and for the community it serves. Maybe we should bring law suits against institutions discriminating on the basis of sex and religion also receiving Federal dollars. The bottomline though, diversity is an educational interest and why Universities are allowed to use it.

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