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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnce again, SCOTUS is out of step with American people
MSNBC just had a poll showing 63% said no when asked if SCOTUS should ban Affirmative Action.
Not gonna boost confidence in the court. Will colleges just ignore them? They will get sued no matter what.
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Once again, SCOTUS is out of step with American people (Original Post)
deminks
Jun 2023
OP
Are they? Then where were they in the 2016 Presidential election when it mattered?
JohnSJ
Jun 2023
#2
In 2020, my state, the deep blue California, voted by a big margin to keep affirmative action banned
Celerity
Jun 2023
#4
bucolic_frolic
(55,177 posts)1. I wonder if the best hope is that AI and data analytic skills
which almost everyone can learn, render elite college degrees less useful? I mean one advantage is hard-working people can't live a life of sloth and privilege.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)2. Are they? Then where were they in the 2016 Presidential election when it mattered?
Kaleva
(40,365 posts)3. They don't go by what the majority of people think
Otherwise, we could just eliminate the courts and go by polls.
Celerity
(54,444 posts)4. In 2020, my state, the deep blue California, voted by a big margin to keep affirmative action banned

Polybius
(21,905 posts)7. That's why the poll the OP references confuses me
How could 63% support it nationwide, and in liberal Cali only 43% want it back?
Johonny
(26,201 posts)5. Most companies now have diversity hiring practices
This is completely out of step with corporate America.
OrlandoDem2
(3,235 posts)6. I'm so angry about the election of 2016! This is why everyone MUST vote in every election for the
Democrat up and down the ballot!!
Because Hillary lost we lost abortion rights and affirmative for university admission.
Trump has a direct role in all this!!
Progressive Lawyer
(617 posts)8. It's not the SCOTUS' job to be in-step with the American people.