Justice Kagan's candid comments on the Supreme Court's rulings on election and voting rulings, democracy, Gerrymandering, Voting Rights Act, Campaign Finance, Legitimacy, independence from the Executive, Religious Liberty and tradition.
Legal and labor experts say Trump v Slaughter decision upends settled constitutional law in favor of ‘loyalty test’
In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Black citizens have no voice in federal lawmaking.
Author Kimberlé Crenshaw says that the conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court know America is not post-racial but insist on pretending that it is.
Dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that "there is no constitutional justification" for the decision, and access to gender-affirming care "can be a question of life or death."
Avatara Smith-Carrington, an attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), emphasized that the ruling offers legal clarity without endangering existing protections.
Affirmative action is now a policy of the past. Something far more powerful than affirmative action is still needed. The vision of Randolph, Rustin and King offers a clue towards a solutions.
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Race, by definition, has never been neutral.
The Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions are unlawful, ending affirmative action programs at colleges. In her dissent, Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pulled no punches calling the ruling “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
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