The one unfortunate exception to this rule has been the Supreme Court’s approval of racial discrimination in education, which has allowed discrimination against Asian students, most prominently, to fester and grow. United States law has long rejected the notion that racism can be good or benign, and rightly so.
O’Connor and then-Solicitor General Mithun Mansinghani, led a 19-state amicus brief in support of Students for Fair Admissions. The state of Oklahoma, through Attorney General John M. Bryan Cleveland serves as the deputy solicitor general. Zach West serves as solicitor general for the state of Oklahoma. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. This article is part of a symposium on the upcoming arguments in Students for Fair Admissions v. Continue Reading SYMPOSIUM The court should relegate racial discrimination in higher education to the dustbin of history By Zach West and Bryan Cleveland on at 5:15 pm This week, we highlight cert petitions that ask the court to consider, among other things, whether school-board officials who block particularly vocal parents from their personal accounts violate the First Amendment.
Last year, the Supreme Court dismissed a case against former President Donald Trump that asked whether Trump had violated the First Amendment when he blocked people from his personal Twitter account while in office. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here. The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. Petitions of the week School-board spat raises recurring question: Can government officials block you on social media? By Kalvis Golde on at 6:47 pm Clarence Thomas Has One Great Point About Affirmative Action (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate).Race Has No Place in College Admissions (Edward Blum, The Wall Street Journal).The College-Admissions Merit Myth (Adam Harris, The Atlantic).Historically diverse Supreme Court hears disproportionately from white lawyers (Theodoric Meyer & Tobi Raji, The Washington Post).Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on the Fate of Affirmative Action (Adam Liptak, The New York Times).To suggest a piece for us to consider, email us at the Monday morning read: 31 By SCOTUSblog on at 9:59 amĮach weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Continue Reading WHAT WE'RE READING The morning read for Monday, Oct. Because each violation bears a maximum penalty of $10,000, the difference for petitioner Alexandru Bittner is between a fine of $50,000 (for five years of delinquent reporting) or $2.72 million (for the 272 omissions from those five reports). Specifically, for a citizen who owns numerous foreign bank accounts, whether the failure to file an FBAR (the federal form that describes the foreign bank accounts of a United States citizen) is a single violation of the Bank Secrecy Act (failure to file a single form) or numerous Bank Secrecy Act violations (failure to report numerous accounts). United States presents a routine interpretative problem. CASE PREVIEW Justices to consider Bank Secrecy Act penalties for failure to report foreign bank accounts By Ronald Mann on at 10:02 am
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