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Amendments by Acclamation: Democrats Move to Simply Declare the Equal Rights Amendment as Ratified

JonathanTurley

Democratic members and advocacy groups have pushed to pack the Supreme Court with an instant liberal majority. They have sought to negate state election laws and impose their own federal election standards on states. But it fell short of that constitutional threshold. In 1981, a federal district court ruled in Idaho v.

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

JonathanTurley

Bollinger , the court divided 5-4 on upholding race admissions criteria used to achieve “diversity” in a class at Michigan Law School. (On On the same day, the court ruled 6-3 to declare Michigan’s undergraduate admissions unconstitutional in the use of race in Gratz v. In 2003, in Grutter v. Bollinger.).

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