Vanity Fair Article RatingSupreme Court Appears Fully Ready to Gut Affirmative Action
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| "The decision upheld Regents v. Bakke, a ruling on affirmative action from a quarter century earlier -- but with one notable qualification." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Affirmative action must continue, potentially for generations to come -- because the invidious discrimination experienced by Black Americans over a three-century span has not been undone." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "And while O'Coor may have suggested that affirmative action won't be necessary in six years, it is, for now, impossible to argue that Black Americans enjoy equality of opportunity, Stone and Bollinger wrote." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "But Black respondents were also somewhat split, opposing the Supreme Court ending affirmative action, but only narrowly, with 47 percent in support of a ban." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "While O'Coor suggested full racial equality would be achieved in 2028, affirmative action may not last that long." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "While public opinion is decidedly in favor of reproductive freedom, it is more mixed on affirmative action; a recent Washington Post poll suggested 63 percent of Americans oppose race-aware admissions, even as 64 percent favor programs aimed at boosting diversity on campuses." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "When it comes to racial groups, white Americans appear most opposed to affirmative action, with two-thirds in the survey arguing that the Supreme Court should prohibit the use of race as a factor in admissions." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, has long opposed affirmative action, suggesting that the policy is itself tantamount to discrimination." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito, the latter of whom authored the court's Dobbs decision ending federal abortion rights, have also directly criticized affirmative action." | Negative | -86% Liberal |
| "Musk promoted a far-right theory about the assault on Nancy Pelosi's Husband in San Francisco just days after buying Twitter." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "There is no truth to that allegation, and local authorities confirmed that Pelosi and his attacker did not know each other." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Billionaire Elon Musk was called out after he tweeted and ultimately deleted a conspiracy theory about the attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi, who survived after being repeatedly struck with a hammer during a home invasion." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Shortly after the attack, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton posted a Los Angeles Times article about the attack and denounced the Republican Party and its mouthpieces [who] now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "As if to prove Clinton's point, Musk replied that there might be a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye, attaching a link to an article from the far-right Santa Monica Observer claiming that Pelosi was attacked by a lover he met at a bar in the middle of the night." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "As if to prove Clinton's point, Musk replied that there might be a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye, attaching a link to an article from the far-right Santa Monica Observer claiming that Pelosi was attacked by a lover he met at a bar in the middle of the night." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "He had intended to kill Speaker Pelosi and yelled, Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "He had intended to kill Speaker Pelosi and yelled, Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" | Negative | -56% Liberal |
| "He had intended to kill Speaker Pelosi and yelled, Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?" | Negative | -56% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
59% : The decision upheld Regents v. Bakke, a ruling on affirmative action from a quarter century earlier -- but with one notable qualification.54% : Affirmative action must continue, potentially for generations to come -- because the invidious discrimination experienced by Black Americans over a three-century span has not been undone."
51% : And while O'Connor may have suggested that affirmative action won't be necessary in six years, it is, for now, "impossible to argue that Black Americans enjoy equality of opportunity," Stone and Bollinger wrote.
50% : But Black respondents were also somewhat split, opposing the Supreme Court ending affirmative action, but only narrowly, with 47 percent in support of a ban.
49% : While O'Connor suggested full racial equality would be achieved in 2028, affirmative action may not last that long.
47% : While public opinion is decidedly in favor of reproductive freedom, it is more mixed on affirmative action; a recent Washington Post poll suggested 63 percent of Americans oppose race-aware admissions, even as 64 percent favor programs aimed at boosting diversity on campuses.
46% : When it comes to racial groups, white Americans appear most opposed to affirmative action, with two-thirds in the survey arguing that the Supreme Court should prohibit the use of race as a factor in admissions.
42% : Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court's leading conservative, has long opposed affirmative action, suggesting that the policy is itself tantamount to discrimination.
7% : Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito, the latter of whom authored the court's Dobbs decision ending federal abortion rights, have also directly criticized affirmative action.
*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.