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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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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). However, weeks after the election, journalists discovered that the Clinton campaign hid payments for the dossier made to a research firm, Fusion GPS, as “legal fees” among the $5.6