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Constitutional Law Reporter
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
University of North Carolina, which are poised to determine the role of affirmative action in college admissions. 2241 whenever it “appears that the remedy by [§ 2255] motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of [their] detention.” Harvard College and SFFA v. Bollinger , 539 U.S. 306 (2003).
JonathanTurley
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Law schools are also facing controversial mandates. In 2022, the American Bar Association required law schools to “provide education to law students on bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism: (1) at the start of the program of legal education, and (2) at least once again before graduation.” He later apologized.
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SCOTUSBlog
JULY 28, 2022
Alito’s core legal analysis remained largely the same, with lengthy passages from the draft reappearing verbatim in the final opinion. Some language from the draft was omitted in the final opinion — mostly concerning legal citations. Alito also added some new language, the bulk of which responded to the dissent and concurrences.
JonathanTurley
OCTOBER 31, 2022
University of North Carolina. University of North Carolina. The Harvard and North Carolina cases raise long-standing objections that universities are gaming the system by using ambiguous “critical mass” arguments on diversity to achieve the same results as formal quota systems. In Gratz v.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 30, 2022
Bollinger declared an expectation that affirmative action would no longer be necessary in 25 years — a self-imposed expiration date that would be unheard of in any other area of constitutional law. But the initial Constitution was of course not colorblind: It protected slavery.
JonathanTurley
APRIL 15, 2022
It began with a decision to drop admissions standards to achieve greater diversity, and now there is a fair possibility that this small high school will be the subject of a Supreme Court challenge with far-reaching legal, educational and social implications. Done: Instant equity. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.
JonathanTurley
JUNE 30, 2023
Indeed, the rulings in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina ended decades of muddled 5-4 decisions. Yet, President Joe Biden seemed to go into full attack mode and actually claimed that the Court gutted the constitutional guarantee that “all men and women are created equal.”
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