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Best champagne deals to toast to this Black Friday

From individual bottles to cases of six, here’s where you can pick up some fizz at a purse-friendly price

The Independent UK

Part VIII: Equal Protection of the Law—Discrimination on the Basis of Race

An Introduction To Constitutional Law Video Library: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Bolling v. Sharpe (1954), Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) v. Bollinger (2003) v. Aaron (1958), Loving v. Virginia (1967), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), Gratz v. Bollinger (2003), Fisher v. University of Texas at…

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Ken Follett: ‘You don’t have to wear a hairshirt to be in the Labour party’

The writer, 74, on Bollinger Bolsheviks, champagne socialism, the power of public libraries and how he came to write the first of his 36 novels

The Guardian - UK

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How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court

Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Reason

North Carolina begins Carowinds roller coaster review after ‘rare’ crack found

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A crack formed in one of the support pillars for the Fury 325 roller coaster at Carowinds in North Carolina. The ride has been closed pending repairs.

Tribune News Service

A Lawyer Who Litigated Grutter Comments on the Court's College Admission Racial Preferences Cases

I've known Michael Rosman at the Center for Individual Rights for almost 30 years; he has litigated many important cases, including with regard to racial preferences, and was one of the lawyers in Grutter v. Bollinger. I'm therefore delighted to pass along his short reactions to Students for Fair Admission…

Reason

A 2003 Supreme Court decision upholding affirmative action planted the seeds of its overturning, as justices then and now thought racism an easily solved problem

In an anticipated but nonetheless stunning decision expected to have widespread implications on college campuses and workplaces across the country, the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2023, outlawed affirmative action programs that were designed to correct centuries of racist disenfranchisement in higher education.

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Affirmative action in universities officially ENDED by Supreme Court in landmark decision

The landmark decision overturns long-standing precedent that has benefitted Black and Latino students in higher education

Daily Mirror

Punchestown: Staggering amount of food and drink to be served at racing festival

More than 110,000 racing fans are set to pony up their cash this week for the Kildare racing festival

Irish Mirror

Conservative US Supreme Court reconsidering affirmative action, leaving the use of race in college admissions on the brink of extinction

The U.S. military learned a valuable lesson about race during the Vietnam War: Diversity does not happen without affirmative action.

The Conversation

How the Supreme Court has ruled in the past about affirmative action

Since its first major decision on the subject in 1978, the court has repeatedly upheld universities' ability to consider the race of applicants as one of many factors in admissions decisions.

WEKU

Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words

A Supreme Court that is the most diverse in history will hear two cases Monday challenging the use of affirmative action in higher education

The Independent UK

Commentary: Removing race from admissions decisions would do lasting damage to American universities

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases filed against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that could profoundly alter the future of higher education in America. Petitioners will ask the court to overturn decades of precedent that have allowed…

Chicago Tribune

Justice Barrett and Affirmative Action

In Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), Justice O'Connor wrote, "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary." I never took this sentence--or really anything Justice O'Connor wrote--very seriously. And even if she was serious about that point, no one who joined her…

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Colorado’s snowpack is melting at a 'ridiculous' rate

Colorado didn’t see enough snow this winter to fully recover from the ongoing megadrought and now what snow the state did see is melting too quickly, experts say.

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