{"id":1962081,"date":"2023-07-01T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-10-quotes-from-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T05:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T09:49:15","slug":"top-10-quotes-from-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-10-quotes-from-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Quotes from Supreme Court&#8217;s Affirmative Action Ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-10-quotes-from-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Supreme Court Strikes Down Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/clarence-thomas\" alt=\"Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/20-1199_hgdj.pdf\">struck down<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/group-trying-to-convince-asians-that-america-is-oppressive-has-ties-to-chinese-state-media\/\" title=\"Group Trying To Convince Asians That America Is Oppressive Has Ties To Chinese State Media\">race-based affirmative action<\/a> in college admissions. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled that the admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina &#8220;cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the Equal Protection Clause&#8221; because they &#8220;lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-court-strikes-racial-preferences-from-college-admissions\/\" title=\"High Court bans racial preferences in college admissions.\">involve racial stereotyping<\/a>, and lack meaningful endpoints.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Here are the 10 must-read quotes from the justices on the case:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Chief Justice John Roberts:<\/strong> &#8220;Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Clarence Thomas:<\/strong> &#8220;Justice Jackson would replace the second Founders\u2019 vision with an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-10-quotes-from-the-supreme-courts-affirmative-action-decision\/\" title=\"Top 10 Quotes from Supreme Court's Affirmative Action Ruling\">organizing principle based<\/a> on race. In fact, on her view, almost all of life\u2019s outcomes may be unhesitatingly ascribed to race. &#8230; This lore is not and has never been true. Even in the segregated South where I grew up, individuals were not the sum of their skin color.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:<\/strong> &#8220;With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces &#8216;colorblindness for all&#8217; by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country\u2019s actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America\u2019s real-world problems.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Neil Gorsuch:<\/strong> &#8220;The words of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are not like mood rings; they do not change their message from one moment to the next.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Thomas:<\/strong> &#8220;Justice Sotomayor apparently believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/clarence-thomas-blasts-ketanji-brown-jacksons-racist-worldview-cancerous-to-young-minds\/\" title=\"Clarence Thomas criticizes Ketanji Brown Jackson's 'racist' worldview as harmful to young minds.\">race-conscious admission programs<\/a> can somehow increase the chances that members of certain races (blacks and Hispanics) are admitted without decreasing the chances of admission for members of other races (Asians). This simply defies mathematics.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Jackson:<\/strong> &#8220;For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that the baby will live, and not die.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/fact-check-liberal-supreme-court-justices-rely-on-false-claims-about-racism-anti-gay-bigotry-to-bolster-dissents\/\">FACT CHECK: FALSE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Chief Justice Roberts:<\/strong> &#8220;While the dissent would certainly not permit university programs that discriminated against black and Latino applicants, it is perfectly willing to let the programs here continue. In its view, this Court is supposed to tell state actors when they have picked the right races to benefit.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Thomas:<\/strong> &#8220;After siloing us all into racial castes and pitting those castes against each other, the dissent somehow believes that we will be able\u2014at some undefined point\u2014to &#8216;march forward together&#8217; into some utopian vision.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Thomas:<\/strong> &#8220;Justice Jackson uses her broad observations about statistical relationships between race and select measures of health, wealth, and well-being to label all blacks as victims. Her desire to do so is unfathomable to me. &#8230; it is an insult to individual achievement and cancerous to young minds seeking to push through barriers, rather than consign themselves to permanent victimhood.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Justice Thomas:<\/strong> &#8220;While I am painfully aware of the social and economic ravages which have befallen my race and all who suffer discrimination, I hold out enduring hope that this country will live up to its principles so clearly enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States: that all men are created equal, are equal citizens, and must be treated equally before the law.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, declared race-based affirmative action in college admissions unconstitutional. Harvard and the University of North Carolina&#8217;s programs were deemed incompatible with the Equal Protection Clause, lacking adequate justification. Justice Clarence Thomas played a significant role in this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1962082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}