(U.S. Supreme) Court limits use of race in school admissions

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected public school assignment plans that take account of students’ race.

The decision in cases affecting schools in Louisville, Ky., and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts nationwide, and it leaves public school systems with a limited arsenal to maintain racial diversity.

The court split, 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts announcing the court’s judgment. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissent that was joined by the court’s other three liberals.

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students would raise their hands. To her surprise only a white girl did, "who do you know in jail?" She answered, my dad, Scooter Libby. There may be such a thing as a culture of poverty; but, there is also the Repug culture of corruption.

Kennedy's reasoning here is key, and I would like to understand it before reacting

Any member of these groups who supports the GOP is a sheep voting for the wolves.

down 5-4 against us................Thanks Nader

...for the next twenty years at least. And nothing in 2008 or future elections can change that. :-(

live another 20 years. We need to get a Democrat in the White House so when he goes he will be replaced by someone who does not side with the consevative activists so much of the time. Stevens is almost 90 and will probably be the next one to leave and if a Repug replaces him we are going to have 6-3 decisions. Not good.

Mz Pip
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I should have been 100% "on the left" with this issue all along.

I was only about 80% certain before, now I am 100%.

Anyone that even thinks of supporting him in 2008 should forever be banned from DU.

The motivation I know to be behind this is more disturbing.

Combined with the strategy to allow public school money to go with a child that goes to private school, public schools will be full of only those poor enough to have to attend them, and now that the busing laws are gone, there is nothing to stop the entire country from looking like New Orleans schools - FULLY abandoned by those who care, by those who can afford to leave, and the public schools are only full of the poor and the black, and since the powers that be only have their kids in private schools, the inclination to accept higher taxes to pay for better schools is non-existent.

Trust me America, New Orleans is the perfect example of the president's plan in action...to allow the public who can to abandon the rest of the public to underfunded schools, to watch them rot away and for America to fully fall into a two-tiered society...those that can afford decent education and those that cannot....a COMPLETELY un-American idea.

Finally, the Repuke strategy to de-fund loan assistance, Pell grants and other student aid further assures that only those lucky enough to be related to someone with means can be successful.

Why Americans put up with this shit is beyond me.

Hi-Fiving this one! Roberts and Alito to join KKK celebration ......
First the schools, then the restaurants, the country clubs, the buses etc...........

The Supreme Court has been packed with partisan politicians who could easily pass for corporate bankrolled white majority rule advocates. Of course this won't really personally affect any really wealthy people of color or most white people because our society is so unintegrated to begin with. The US as I once knew it has now begun its rapid descent into a caste system based on skin color and wealth. Hey, somebody has to give state governors the justification to trim education costs by hacking away at health care and education services. They have it now. We have become South Africa in 1950. Just take a few years to set the rest of it up. It will take way more than 50 years to fix what the elitist, wealthy, conservatives have done to this country.

Thanks alot Dem leaders. Yes, I know you were in the minority, but you didn't even try to stop these right wing zealots from getting on the court.

Now, we get to turn the clock back, way back to the neocon view of the 'good ol days'

Being a yankee of a certain age, I remember the fight there was to get the civil rights act passed, to get schools integrated, heck, to get people treated as human beings.

Now, it seems that I can relive my youth, fighting for what I thought was already won, EQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES!

IT IS GOING QUICKLY DOWN THE DRAIN WHEN WILL MORE PEOPLE RAISE THEIR VOICE IN OPPOSITION?

I GUESS IT IS TRUE, WE WILL GO OUT WITH A WHIMPER WHILE THE NEOFASCISTS TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY.

Thanks again Dem leaders, thanks indeed...

The only thing that can overrule a Supreme Court ruling is a future ruling that overturns the present one.

If we are not permitted to employ racial discrimination in our schools?

some of us employ racial discrimination in our daily lives don't we Izzy?

How do you employ racial discrimination in your daily life?

How do you justify this?

best left for you Nigel. You've demonstrated your racism quite well from Jack's to PHB to the racist board you now frequent. Hell, I banned you myself from PHB for your racist tirade against the HONORABLE Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.