Anti-affirmative action group, emboldened by US Supreme Court, targets scholarships
reuters.com
Sept 22 (Reuters) - A non-profit group opposing race-based education policies has filed more than a dozen U.S. civil rights complaints this year against universities, challenging the legality of offering minority scholarships, summer study and residency programs to promote racial diversity.
The challenges are part of a growing campaign against diversity initiatives after a U.S. Supreme Court landmark ruling in June outlawed use of race in college admissions, commonly known as affirmative action. Conservative activists say the decision should extend to all educational programs, and some groups have also challenged corporate diversity policies.
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Money is speech according to the supreme court. These groups cannot dictate how private organizations hand out money.
The idea that Supreme Court justices -- ESPECIALLY conservative Supreme Court justices -- even pretend to have ideological consistency is absurd. They never have and the aren't going to start any time soon.
Never forget about how the known segregationist Rehnquist invented the Major Questions Doctrine purely in order to ignore the laws passed by Congress and replace the legislature with the bench just because he felt like it. And the same people that will endlessly call for states rights or declare inconvenient political questions strictly the purview of Congress will happily invoke it again and again any time their own political preferences are being ignored. Like Roberts just making the fuck up that Congress's authorization to regulate pollution doesn't allow the EPA to regulate pollution on a fully moot case they had no business even granting cert to, much less ruling on.
Fuck, I wish people understood just how utterly depraved and corrupt the SCOTUS is. There is zero reason to expect ANY legitimate rulings out of it. It does not and nearly never has cared about the law or civil rights.
A good book on this is A People's History of the Supreme Court. People think it had legitimacy because they tend to remember the few good rulings that helped Civil rights (Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade), but a lot of it's decisions have been pretty terrible for the people in the US, from their decisions on slavery, segregation (before Brown), the Bush/Gore election results, every decisions they have made lately, etc.
People don't seem to grasp just how fucked that EPA case, and it's consequences are. Chevron deference is out the window. Defeats the entire purpose of having regulatory agencies staffed by experts in their respective fields.
Which, of course, is their intention. Dismantling the "administrative state." The fact that so many poor and middle class people have been fooled into fervently supporting these ghouls is so fucked up.
naah its only speech when evil corporations are lining the pockets of corrupt politicians. Here there is probably some reason as to why giving money to help disadvntaged kids get an education is not speech because these kids cannot influence politics directly or some bs.
That would be true if they cared about consistency and weren't massive hypocrites.