“The way to stop discrimination…”
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race”. So wrote Chief Justice Roberts in the majority opinion of today’s landmark ruling regarding Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 (PDF of the justices’ opinions here), while Justice Breyer, disturbed by the implications of the 5-4 decision, lamented, “It is not often in the law that so few have so quickly changed so much”. Here’s more on the details of the decision from the International Herald Tribune, “U.S. Supreme Court rejects school diversity plans that take race into account” and “U.S. Supreme court votes to limit use of race in integration”, and some additional thoughts on the decision’s possible local impact from the Arizona Daily Star, “Justices rule out race in schools’ diversity“.
Additonally, less dramatically, but no less important, the justices upheld students’ freedom of politiial speech in Marineau v. Guiles, “Court Allows Student’s Anti-Bush T-Shirt”.
Juan Williams, NPR correspondent and FOX contributor, offered his opinion of the former decision, and the NewsHour analyzed recent trends ofthe Court under the leadership of Justice Roberts.
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