The End of Affirmative Action
Strict Scrutiny
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The Tory Court's Decision to Overrule Affirmative Action
Sonia Sotomayor wrote a fiery dissent in which she reminded everyone who's literate and reading this opinion that her conservative colleagues literally do not give a fuck about precedent. She said it is quote a disturbing feature of today's decision that the court does not even attempt to make the extraordinary showing required by story to sizes. The court simply moves the gold posts, upsetting settled expectations and throwing admissions programs nationwide into turmoil. In the end, the court is forced to change the rules of the game to reach its desired outcome. There is no better evidence that the court is overruling the court's precedence than those precedents themselves.
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