Donald Trump’s critics are quick to tag him as a racist and a bigot, but the Republican front-runner was openly critical of remarks made last week by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on the effectiveness of affirmative action.
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According to Mic, Scalia voiced this argument in regards to the Supreme Court case Fischer vs. University of Texas, which examines the school’s affirmative action policy.
“These ideas that he pronounced yesterday are racist in application, if not intent”, Reid remarked.
The divisive jurist made the comments December 9 during oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, in which the high court-for the second time-reviewed the constitutionality of the University of Texas’ consideration of race in its undergraduate admissions policy. This general point has nothing to do with race; Scalia certainly did not suggest that non-blacks who fail to meet the normal admissions criteria would benefit from admission to the University of Texas or anywhere else.
Above the Law says Scalia neglected to mention black astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who received a master’s degree in astronomy from the University of Texas. The problem with that, Scalia and Justice Thomas say, is that students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds, as many minority students do, may be admitted into schools with academic expectations that they are not prepared for. He later took to Twitter to make his criticism more public.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday called for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself from any case before the high court involving discrimination.
Most students at the university gain admission through a scheme that automatically admits Texans who graduate in the top 10% of their high school class.
We all know that the old boys network is alive and well and bred and cultivated in such places as Harvard Yard and the Skull and Bone (yards) of Yale, and that the powerbrokers in our country came out of the elite institutions where they forged their bonds in youthful drunken revelry and late nights in the library and Thanksgiving breaks at each other’s homes.
For the second punchline, Meyers went after Arizona State University since his head writer went to archrival University of Arizona: “In fact, it’s Arizona State’s motto”.
“I just think he’s a pull-no-punches kind of guy”, said Paul Cassell, a University of Utah law professor and former Scalia clerk who also served as a federal judge.
“When the Court declared a constitutional right to homosexual sodomy, we were assured that the case had nothing, nothing at all to do with whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter”, Scalia said.
A group of 11 leading experts in quantitative social science filed their own brief to the Supreme Court arguing that the Court should not consider the mismatch theory when deciding the case.
In terms of raw numbers, it’s probably true that most of the black scientists come from schools that are less selective than the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Nevada senator said the idea that black students should be pushed out of top universities into lesser schools is “unacceptable”. This “mismatch” theory holds that minorities would be better off at less academically rigorous schools.
