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Affirmative Action Reaction

Strict Scrutiny

CHAPTER

Justice Kagan's Response to the I Am Pauli Letter to UNC

Justice Kagan had another off the cuff, just brutal real time reaction to an advocate's response. Colleges now, when they apply gender neutral criteria, get many more women than men. And assume that that continues to be true. Well, of course, you know, under this court's pressing with respect to the equal protection clause that is subject to somewhat lesser level of scrutiny than racial classifications are. So even if they could justify them under this court’s equal protection jurisprudence, I don't think it follows that they can justify racial classifications.

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