In addition to slapping around Obama on immigration, the Supreme Court decided to approve how the guy got in the White House in the first place by upholding a ruling on Affirmative Action.
The Supreme Court today voted to uphold a component of the University of Texas’ admissions policy that takes race into account.
In a 5-3 vote, the justices upheld the judgment of the court of appeals, which had ruled in favor of the state’s including race in its admissions process.
This case is the second trip to the Supreme Court for Abigail Fisher, a white woman who was denied admission to the University of Texas and then filed a lawsuit challenging the university’s use of race in admissions.
In Fisher I, the Supreme Court ruled that the lower courts were too deferential to school administrators, and were required to look more closely at actual evidence, rather than accept school administrators’ assurances of their good intentions when considering race. The lower court took another look and stood by its earlier decision, and the case ended up back before the justices, who heard oral arguments Dec. 9, 2015.
Texas has a unique admissions program, which first takes approximately the top 10 percent of graduating high school seniors in the state, and then uses race as part of a “holistic” analysis, which also includes things like community service, leadership and family circumstances in filling the remaining spots.
Fisher’s attorneys argued that the implementation of the top 10 percent program is sufficient to increase minority enrollment, so there is no need to take race into account when filling the remaining spots.
Wow. Even if Obama hadn’t assassinated Scalia, this case still would have gone for Affirmative Action, since the addition of Antonin would have only made it 5-4. Of course, that doesn’t take into account what would have happened if he had been there to argue on the side of reason and logic.