KTBB Article RatingBiden, Obamas, Trump and more react to Supreme Court restricting affirmative action
Jun 29, 2023 View Original Article
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48% Medium Conservative
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| "Affirmative action has been a tool to break down systemic barriers and we must continue to advance our ideals of inclusivity & opportunity for all, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of three Black senators, tweeted." | Positive | 32% Conservative |
| "Outside experts, observers and studentsAffirmative action has contributed to the rise in students of color attending colleges and universities, experts told ABC News." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "Lawmakers, legal experts, presidential candidates -- past and present -- and others are reacting on Thursday to a landmark ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court setting new limits on the use of affirmative action in college and university admissions." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "While the court's conservative wing ruled against affirmative action, the three liberal-leaning justices dissented." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Edward Blum, the conservative activist who has led the legal battle against affirmative action for years and organized the group of Asian American students who brought the cases in Thursday's ruling, similarly celebrated the decision." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Former President Barack Obama, in a shorter statement, said: Like any policy, affirmative action wasn't perfect." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Below are reactions from notable figures to the ruling:Joe BidenThe court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions, and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court's decision, the president said in his White House speech Thursday afternoon." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Researchers fear the progress made in racial equity in higher education will be reversed, even though they say affirmative action has not been a perfect solution.Historically, some of these places like [the University of North Carolina], you literally couldn't go to UNC if you're Black, said Natasha Warikoo, a sociologist at Tufts University and researcher of racial inequity in education." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Vivek Ramaswamy, another GOP 2024 candidate and a biotech entrepreneur, wrote on social media that affirmative action is a badly failed experiment: time to put a nail in the coffin & restore colorblind meritocracy." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "I think that by getting rid of affirmative action, now we look at the individual student and what they've accomplished, and we can look at what barriers they've overcome, but we view them as an individual first and foremost as opposed to just viewing them as a blob in an amorphous, larger racial group, Shieh said." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action is a devastating blow to our education system across the country." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "The Court's decision to overturn long-standing precedent of Affirmative Action is a fatal blow to equitable & accessible education for all." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Trump himself later said the ruling marked a great day for America.This is the ruling everyone was waiting and hoping for and the result was amazing." | Positive | 42% Conservative |
| "But it allowed generations of students like Michelle and me to prove we belonged." | Positive | 38% Conservative |
| "Affirmative action has been a tool to break down systemic barriers and we must continue to advance our ideals of inclusivity & opportunity for all, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of three Black senators, tweeted." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "America is a better nation as a result of the historic rulings led by Donald Trump's three Supreme Court nominees." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "In America, fairness is the key to educational opportunity, where one's success is judged by merit rather than arbitrary quotas, North Carolina Rep. Virginia Foxx, the chair of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, said in a statement." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, also lauded the ruling, casting it as a sign of the progress that the country is making on race." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "The ObamasFormer first lady Michelle Obama wrote about her own experience as one of the few Black students on her college campus and said in a statement that today, my heart breaks for any young person out there who's wondering what their future holds -- and what kinds of chances will be open to them." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "A spokesperson for a political group supporting former President Donald Trump's own reelection bid tied the ruling to Trump's own record in the White House, because three of the justices in the majority were nominated by him to the high court." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "A spokesperson for a political group supporting former President Donald Trump's own reelection bid tied the ruling to Trump's own record in the White House, because three of the justices in the majority were nominated by him to the high court." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's nearest primary competitor, tweeted that the Supreme Court correctly upheld the Constitution and ended discrimination by colleges and universities." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Trump's nearest primary competitor, tweeted that the Supreme Court correctly upheld the Constitution and ended discrimination by colleges and universities." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Former President Barack Obama, in a shorter statement, said: Like any policy, affirmative action wasn't perfect." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Below are reactions from notable figures to the ruling:Joe BidenThe court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions, and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court's decision, the president said in his White House speech Thursday afternoon." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "In a speech from the White House, President Joe Biden tore into the decision, casting it as a step backward." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Political candidatesRepublican presidential hopeful Mike Pence hailed the decision, saying in a statement: There is no place for discrimination based on race in the United States, and I am pleased that the Supreme Court has put an end to this egregious violation of civil and constitutional rights in admissions processes, which only served to perpetuate racism." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York called the majority's misguided ruling a giant roadblock in our country's march toward racial justice. ..." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "After delivering his remarks, Biden was asked by a reporter if the Supreme Court -- governed by a 6-3 conservative majority -- is a rogue court, to which he responded that it is not a normal court." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "President Donald Trump made today's historic decision to end the racist college admissions process possible because he delivered on his promise to appoint constitutionalist justices, the spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, said." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "This is wrong and un-American, tweeted Teessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell of Kentucky said, in part, For decades, the Court turned a blind eye as higher education prioritized illegal social engineering over merit." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
66% : Affirmative action has been a tool to break down systemic barriers and we must continue to advance our ideals of inclusivity & opportunity for all," New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of three Black senators, tweeted.63% :Outside experts, observers and studentsAffirmative action has contributed to the rise in students of color attending colleges and universities, experts told ABC News.
54% : Lawmakers, legal experts, presidential candidates -- past and present -- and others are reacting on Thursday to a landmark ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court setting new limits on the use of affirmative action in college and university admissions.
48% : While the court's conservative wing ruled against affirmative action, the three liberal-leaning justices dissented.
48% :Edward Blum, the conservative activist who has led the legal battle against affirmative action for years and organized the group of Asian American students who brought the cases in Thursday's ruling, similarly celebrated the decision.
46% : Former President Barack Obama, in a shorter statement, said: "Like any policy, affirmative action wasn't perfect.
45% : Below are reactions from notable figures to the ruling:Joe Biden"The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions, and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court's decision," the president said in his White House speech Thursday afternoon.
45% : Researchers fear the progress made in racial equity in higher education will be reversed, even though they say affirmative action has not been a perfect solution."Historically, some of these places like [the University of North Carolina], you literally couldn't go to UNC if you're Black," said Natasha Warikoo, a sociologist at Tufts University and researcher of racial inequity in education.
41% :Vivek Ramaswamy, another GOP 2024 candidate and a biotech entrepreneur, wrote on social media that "affirmative action is a badly failed experiment: time to put a nail in the coffin & restore colorblind meritocracy."
41% : "I think that by getting rid of affirmative action, now we look at the individual student and what they've accomplished, and we can look at what barriers they've overcome, but we view them as an individual first and foremost as opposed to just viewing them as a blob in an amorphous, larger racial group," Shieh said.
37% : "The Supreme Court's decision to strike down affirmative action is a devastating blow to our education system across the country.
37% : "The Court's decision to overturn long-standing precedent of Affirmative Action is a fatal blow to equitable & accessible education for all.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.