President Joe Biden said he "strongly, strongly disagreed" with a Supreme Court decision to strike down the decades-long use of affirmative action in college admissions.
The court's conservative majority overturned admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, saying race can no longer be considered as a factor in university admissions. The landmark ruling overturns generations of affirmative action, which began in the 1960s as a way to increase diversity after the hard-won success of the civil rights movement.
Chief Justice John Roberts said that, for too long universities have "concluded, wrongly, that the touchstone of an individual's identity is not challenges bested, skills built, or lessons learned but the color of their skin. Our constitutional history does not tolerate that choice."
Justice Clarence Thomas — the nation's second Black justice, who had long called for an end to affirmative action — wrote that the decision "sees the universities' admissions policies for what they are: rudderless, race-based preferences designed to ensure a particular racial mix in their entering classes." However, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in dissent that the decision "rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress." |
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| Ex-president has claimed owenership over classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago citing the Presidential Records Act |
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| The personality made a name for himself with controversial segments attacking familiar right-wing targets |
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| Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, 24, is international student who recently graduated from University of Waterloo |
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How did the Railroad Killer use the vast US train network as his personal hunting ground? |
Local police chief Randy Kennedy stared out the window of his friend Leafie Mason's home in Hughes Springs, trying to come to terms with the fact that he'd just discovered her battered body in a bedroom inside. The East Texas lawman had known Mason since he was 16, and he couldn't imagine how or why anyone would hurt the now-87-year-old – especially in such a violent manner. She'd been beaten to death with a blunt object, her purse left open in the bathroom with her wallet identification displayed almost like a trophy. Chief Kennedy looked at the window at the back of the house, figuring it had been pried open, and spotted two palm prints. Then he looked a bit further. "Just right across the street is the railroad track," he says in Netflix's Catching Killers. "No one in the community would do this to her. It just hit me that it had to be the train. Somebody got off the train, came over here and murdered her and got back on the train and left." |
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