Make No Mistake, the Supreme Court Will Kill Affirmative Action

Nov 01, 2022 View Original Article
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    -10% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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"It's exactly the same rationale the conservatives used to expand gun rights, deny climate change, and authorize the states to force women to bring pregnancies to term against their will."
Positive
18% Conservative
"The Supreme Court started the process of officially dismantling affirmative action in college admissions on Monday as it heard two cases attacking the policy."
Positive
6% Conservative
"The liberal justices and the lawyers defending the universities -- who included the solicitor general for the United States, Elizabeth Prelogar, who was there primarily to argue that affirmative action was important for the nation's service academies, to ensure a diverse officer core -- argued that the conservative spin on affirmative action was factually untrue."
Positive
4% Conservative
"I say claims to represent because the group was actually organized by Ed Blum, a white conservative gadfly backed by well-funded donors who has made it his life's work to end affirmative action."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Blum has failed to take down affirmative action in the past, most recently in 2016 through the vessel of Abigail Fisher, a white woman who sued the University of Texas over its admissions policies."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The lawyers defending affirmative action didn't dodge his question; instead, they gave him answers."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"The conservative justices don't have to care about facts, they don't have to care about reality, they don't have to care about the actual application of affirmative action, and they don't have to care about constitutional law, because they have the votes to kill that which they dislike."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"But what Norris failed to do was make any kind of coection between these unfair personal ratings and the need to throw out affirmative action policies."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The conservative justice most dedicated to his opposition to affirmative action, facts be damned, was Clarence Thomas."
Negative
-18% Liberal
"But the conservative justices were not interested in how affirmative action actually works; they were instead wedded to their narrative that race-conscious admissions are bad, even though they couldn't muster any evidence about whom it is bad for."
Negative
-20% Liberal
"Fisher lost the second of her two Supreme Court cases in 2016, with the court upholding affirmative action by a vote of 4-3, with Anthony Keedy writing the majority opinion."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Robstown, Texas, U.S., October 22, 2022."
Positive
6% Conservative
"Trump also faces a federal criminal investigation into the removal of government documents from the White House when he left office last year.(Reporting by Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen in New York;Editing by Noeleen Walder and Alistair Bell)"
Negative
-24% Liberal
"The day he pleaded guilty, the Trump Organization called Weisselberg a fine and honorable man who had been harassed by law enforcement in a politically motivated quest to get Trump."
Negative
-14% Liberal
"Two top prosecutors on the case resigned in February, with one saying felony charges against Trump, a Republican, were warranted but that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg indicated doubts."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"Trump, who is considering another White House run in 2024, has not been charged in the case."
Negative
-32% Liberal
"-Former President Donald Trump's real estate company cheated tax authorities over a 15-year period, a New York prosecutor told a jury on Monday in her opening statement in the Trump Organization's criminal trial on tax fraud charges."
Negative
-38% Liberal
"The case is separate from a $250 million civil lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general against Trump, three of his adult children and his company in September, accusing them of lying to banks and insurers by overvaluing his real estate assets and Trump's net worth."
Negative
-46% Liberal
"The case is separate from a $250 million civil lawsuit filed by New York's attorney general against Trump, three of his adult children and his company in September, accusing them of lying to banks and insurers by overvaluing his real estate assets and Trump's net worth."
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-46% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : It's exactly the same rationale the conservatives used to expand gun rights, deny climate change, and authorize the states to force women to bring pregnancies to term against their will.
53% : The Supreme Court started the process of officially dismantling affirmative action in college admissions on Monday as it heard two cases attacking the policy.
52% : The liberal justices and the lawyers defending the universities -- who included the solicitor general for the United States, Elizabeth Prelogar, who was there primarily to argue that affirmative action was important for the nation's service academies, to ensure a diverse officer core -- argued that the conservative spin on affirmative action was factually untrue.
49% : I say "claims to represent" because the group was actually organized by Ed Blum, a white conservative gadfly backed by well-funded donors who has made it his life's work to end affirmative action.
48% : Blum has failed to take down affirmative action in the past, most recently in 2016 through the vessel of Abigail Fisher, a white woman who sued the University of Texas over its admissions policies.
48% : The lawyers defending affirmative action didn't dodge his question; instead, they gave him answers.
45% : The conservative justices don't have to care about facts, they don't have to care about reality, they don't have to care about the actual application of affirmative action, and they don't have to care about constitutional law, because they have the votes to kill that which they dislike.
44% : But what Norris failed to do was make any kind of connection between these unfair personal ratings and the need to throw out affirmative action policies.
41% : The conservative justice most dedicated to his opposition to affirmative action, facts be damned, was Clarence Thomas.
40% : But the conservative justices were not interested in how affirmative action actually works; they were instead wedded to their narrative that race-conscious admissions are "bad," even though they couldn't muster any evidence about whom it is bad for.
39% : Fisher lost the second of her two Supreme Court cases in 2016, with the court upholding affirmative action by a vote of 4-3, with Anthony Kennedy writing the majority opinion.

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