Supreme Court affirmative action: Consideration of race outlawed as factor in college admissions

Jun 29, 2023 View Original Article
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"Affirmative action in college admissions is a policy of taking an individual student's race or ethnicity into account during the selection process."
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14% Conservative
"Opponents of affirmative action want the justices to overturn 40 years of precedent and categorically ban the use of race in higher education admissions policies nationwide."
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-12% Liberal
"Without affirmative action, students of color would experience an estimated 23 percentage-point decline in likelihood of admission to highly selective public universities, according to one study from 2014."
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-14% Liberal
"Dozens of major American companies that employ tens of thousands of U.S. workers have told the Supreme Court that ending affirmative action would undermine recruitment of diverse, highly educated job candidates and, in turn, hurt profits."
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-14% Liberal
"The group believes affirmative action violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial discrimination any place that receives federal funding, like private universities."
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-18% Liberal
"Amid tenacious inflation and low approval ratings, President Joe Biden touted Bidenomics as the best economic path forward before a Chicago audience."
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20% Conservative
"Antoni added:What Biden inherited was an economy growing at a $1.5 trillion aualized rate -- hardly 'reeling,' as he now describes it."
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18% Conservative
"Biden has added 12.1 million jobs in two years, averaging 500,000 jobs per month."
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12% Conservative
"His address at Chicago's Old Post Office comes as only 34"
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10% Conservative
"Follow us @WNDNewsI traveled 17,000 miles and spoke with him more than any other head of state, Biden said, adding:It started when I was vice president."
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4% Conservative
"With regard to Biden's boast about Delaware having the most incorporated companies, this second smallest state in the country has more than 60"
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2% Conservative
"Biden told his Chicago audience that his policies restored jobs."
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2% Conservative
"Yet, even if Biden wants to play that game, he still doesn't win."
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2% Conservative
"Biden, Xi, and '17,000 Miles'"
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"I know some corporations, more corporations in Delaware [are] incorporated than every other state in the union combined, Biden said."
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0% Conservative
"In his remarks in Chicago, Biden said, I kept all my notes, an apparent reference to his predecessor, Donald Trump, recently indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents."
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6% Conservative
"In his remarks in Chicago, Biden said, I kept all my notes, an apparent reference to his predecessor, Donald Trump, recently indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents."
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6% Conservative
"It's called trickle-down economics, fundamental economics, Biden said, before digressing."
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-4% Liberal
"At one point, while criticizing trickle-down economics, Biden digressed to say: If my mom were here, God bless his soul."
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-6% Liberal
"At another point, Biden asserted: We're replacing every single lead pipe in this country and putting our healthier -- our children's health back directly."
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-6% Liberal
"'Reducing the Deficit'In his Chicago speech, Biden again claimed that he has reduced the budget deficit."
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-8% Liberal
"Using Biden's own logic, President Donald Trump added 12.5 million jobs in nine months, averaging 1.4 million jobs per month."
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-2% Liberal
"Using Biden's own logic, President Donald Trump added 12.5 million jobs in nine months, averaging 1.4 million jobs per month."
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-2% Liberal
"Falling InflationBiden also boasted about reducing inflation."
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-10% Liberal
"The fiscal 2020 budget deficit under President Donald Trump was a record $3.3 trillion, said David Ditch, a senior policy analyst with The Heritage Foundation, parent organization of The Daily Signal."
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-12% Liberal
"Less than one month into Biden's term, The Washington Post fact-checked his claim of 17,000 miles."
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-14% Liberal
"The Post's Fact Checker columnist, Gle Kessler, gave Biden three Pinocchios out of a maximum of four for straying from the facts."
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-14% Liberal
"Further, an analyst for Moody's Analytics told the left-leaning CNN last month: The actions of the [Biden] administration and Congress have undoubtedly resulted in higher deficits, not smaller ones.4."
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-14% Liberal
"Biden said that The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times invented the term."
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-16% Liberal
"Biden made several claims in the speech that were unverifiable, unusual, or plain false."
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-16% Liberal
"Democrats often use that phrase to denigrate President Ronald Reagan's successful economic policies."
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-18% Liberal
"Today, inflation is less than half -- less than half of what it was a year ago -- and that inflation [was] caused by Russia and by the war in Ukraine and by what was going on, Biden said."
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-18% Liberal
"Biden's claim about not keeping all his notes, whatever he did with them, hasn't been adjudicated."
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-24% Liberal
"Biden added that his latest budget proposal to Congress -- unlikely to pass as is -- would reduce the deficit by another $1 trillion."
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-26% Liberal
"In one ironic twist, Biden praised his home state of Delaware and blasted trickle-down economics, or the use of tax cuts for high earners and businesses to spur job creation and increase employment."
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-28% Liberal
"An updated CBO report this past February, however, showed that the budget deficit under Biden was $319 billion higher than expected when he took office Jan. 20, 2021."
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-28% Liberal
"It was inappropriate at that time for Barack [Obama] to spend that time with him."
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-30% Liberal
"The White House did not offer an explanation for how Biden calculated 17,000 miles."
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-30% Liberal
"And yet, the economy managed two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth a year and a half after Biden took office, with many economists forecasting negative growth to return this year.5."
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-30% Liberal
"Folks, let me say this as clearly as I can: The trickle-down approach has failed the middle class, it failed America, Biden said."
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-34% Liberal
"Further, under Reagan, inflation dropped from 13.5"
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-36% Liberal
"The newspaper concluded: Biden is using a figure that caot be verified in a misleading way."
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-40% Liberal
"The term trickle-down economics often is associated with Reagan's policies in the 1980s, when as president he cut taxes and scaled back regulations."
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-26% Liberal

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% :Affirmative action in college admissions is a policy of taking an individual student's race or ethnicity into account during the selection process.
44% : Opponents of affirmative action want the justices to overturn 40 years of precedent and categorically ban the use of race in higher education admissions policies nationwide.
43% : Without affirmative action, students of color would experience an estimated 23 percentage-point decline in likelihood of admission to highly selective public universities, according to one study from 2014.
43% : Dozens of major American companies that employ tens of thousands of U.S. workers have told the Supreme Court that ending affirmative action would undermine recruitment of diverse, highly educated job candidates and, in turn, hurt profits.
41% : The group believes affirmative action violates the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial discrimination any place that receives federal funding, like private universities.

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