Tag: Chief Justice John Roberts
Deference Deterrence: Will U.S. Supreme Court Let the Bureaucrats Keep Running Wild?
There is a legal thing called “Chevron deference” and it has encouraged the massive growth of the power and scope of the bureaucratic state over the past 40 years. Named after a 1984 legal case, the doctrine holds (in a...
A Desperate Measure Cloaked in Science: The Left’s Latest Attempt to Overturn Proposition 209
The opponents of Proposition 209 — the proposition that amended the California constitution to ban racial preferences — are at it again. After losing their campaign to defeat Prop 209 in 1996, the proponents of race-based affirmative action spent the next two...
Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ruling a Win for America But not for California Progressives
Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanagh and Barrett have delivered the American people a wonderful Independence Day gift with their majority opinion in Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard College and the University of North Carolina. The ruling overturns...
SCOTUS Rules Race Cannot Be Considered For University Admissions
This is Part III of a series on two U.S. Supreme Cases which will decide if racial preferences in college application acceptances will be allowed to continue at publicly funded schools. The wheels of justice churn slowly–especially when it comes...
Supreme Court Outlaws Affirmative Action in College Admissions, Bolsters CA’s Prop. 209
The United States Supreme Court issued a ruling on Wednesday against using affirmative action in the college admissions process. California passed its own Civil Rights Initiative, Proposition 209, in 1996, passed by voters 55% to 45%, which said that the...
SCOTUS Hears University Affirmative Action Cases
This is Part II of a series on two U.S. Supreme Cases which will decide if racial preferences in college application acceptances will be allowed to continue at publicly funded schools. In February of this year I wrote that the...