No, Justice Antonin Scalia is not the author of that piece three years ago.
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Also filing a friend of the court brief was the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which says it has “long played a key role in the litigation of this case”.
At Miami University, where officials are closely following the case – and strongly support the University of Texas position – Michael Kabbaz, the school’s vice president for enrollment management and student success, said diversity is an obligation. He implied affirmative action puts minority students in elite universities that are too challenging for them. But Scalia butchered the issue by speaking in broad strokes about the competency of black students.
The case involves a white woman who claims she was denied admission to the University of Texas because less-qualified blacks were admitted due to the school’s affirmative action policies. Alito showed great confidence in the abilities of minority students. Last month, Scalia drew criticism for remarks to a group of Georgetown University law students in which he suggested the push to protect certain minority groups under the Constitution could just as easily apply to child molesters. “They come from lesser schools where they do not feel that they’re that they’re being pushed ahead in classes that are too too fast for them”. The plan was adopted in the 1990s after a lower court banned the use of race at UT Austin in Hopwood v. Texas. Because of mismatch, racial preference policies often stigmatize minorities, reinforce pernicious stereotypes, and undermine the self-confidence of beneficiaries, rather than creating the diverse racial utopias so often advertised in college campus brochures. At argument, Alito pounced on this line of reasoning.
It was a brilliant question that turned the tables.
“Justice Scalia’s evident bias is very troubling to me”. Its brief was filed on behalf of the Black Student Alliance (BSA) and the Black Ex-Student Alliance (BEST).
Some took Trump’s reaction as support for affirmative action, which is not exactly a conservative tenet. Like the American public, Kennedy has been torn: He values diversity and recognizes that race still matters in American society, but he doesn’t like the idea of explicitly counting skin color in deciding who gets ahead.
Gregory Garre, the university’s lawyer, told Scalia that minority students admitted through the affirmative action program fared better over time than those admitted from the top 10 percent of all schools.
Wednesday’s oral arguments included shocking racial animus and stereotyping.
Yet with a salad, “because we add the white of the onions, the black of the olives, the brown of the crouton, the orange of the carrot – and even if they’re not shaped perfectly, they still taste good, representing those people who come with some element of disabilities”.
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“It’s up to me to decide deserving minorities?”
