Justice Scalia's comments

There are a lot of people on this thread who have forever sacrificed the high ground on "57 states." Words matter!

 

I'm having a hard time taking the predictions of the Board's SCOTUS experts seriously, as they debate whether the vote will be 8-1, or 7-2.

I'll bet you any amount you'd like, and give you odds, that the final vote will be neither of those two.

Justice Elena Kagan was recused from the case because she had worked on it as solicitor general of the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/u...t-case-that-may-alter-affirmative-action.html

 

Don't fight the hypo, YF.

The vote debate was not on the outcome of the current case, which will most certainly be something other then a one or two vote dissent.

 

University of Texas affirmative action plan upheld. Fisher loses, 4-3.

Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in college admissions case

 

Wow!

 

GOP gonna rally around Trump now so they can save the Supreme Court!

 

SCOTUS Blog says the opinion is 20 pages and Alito's (butthurt) dissent is 51 pages.

 

Supreme Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action admissions

The board's sabermetrically inclined crew will love this quote:

“A university is in large part defined by those intangible qualities which are incapable of objective measurement but which make for greatness,” Kennedy wrote in the court’s majority opinion.

 

I'm not into sabermetrics, but, wow, that quote screams "I don't have any facts so I'm just going to go with how I feel."

How about Kennedy ask some of those 4.0 students who couldn't get in about "intangible qualities which are incapable of objective measurement."

 

One two many "which"es in that quote, Cran.

 

I think this really touches on the basic differences between liberals and conservatives.

Right or wrong, liberals tend to look at things in shades of gray. So I think it's easy for them to see a value of a diverse campus, even if you can't easily measure it.

Conservatives tend to see things as black and white and I can understand how they feel that it's not fair for someone to get in to Texas with a lower ACT/GPA score, no matter their race, religion, extracurriculars, etc.

 

Oh, don't kid yourselves, liberals see things as black and white, too. The "diversity" argument is nothing more than an end-around of prohibitions of strict quotas.