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The Supreme Court Just Shot Down a Big Challenge to Affirmative Action. Read the Decision Here.

by JoieKennerley Posted on June 23, 2016

Mother Jones

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The Supreme Court delivered a major victory for affirmative action on Thursday, rejecting a challenge to a University of Texas admissions system that uses race as a factor to ensure diversity for a portion of its student body. The case, Fisher v. University of Texas, concerns the school’s use of a “holistic” system for 25 percent of its class—the rest of the class as admitted purely on the basis of high school grades—that includes race among other factors. A white applicant who was rejected by the school challenged the system.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court sided with the university in a 4-3 decision. Read the full ruling here:

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Read more about the man who brought this case to the Supreme Court and statements by the late Justice Antonin Scalia earlier in the case suggesting that black students belong at “slower” colleges.

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Breaking: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Is Dead at 79

by JohnnieVernon5 Posted on February 13, 2016

Mother Jones

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Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead at a ranch outside Marfa, Texas, on Saturday, according to multiple news reports. He was 79. The death was confirmed by Texas governor Greg Abbott, in a statement posted to Twitter on Saturday afternoon:

According to an ABC affiliate, KVIA, Scalia died in his sleep last night after a hunting trip.

This is a breaking news post, and we will be updating it with new information as it becomes available.

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The Supreme Court Just Stopped Texas From Closing Almost All Of Its Abortion Clinics

by EuniceT24vtxxf Posted on June 29, 2015

Mother Jones

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The Supreme Court on Monday halted key portions of Texas’s anti-abortion law from going into effect that would have shutdown all but nine abortion clinics in the state. The stay will remain in place while abortion rights advocates prepare to take their case seeking to overturn portions of the Texas law to the Supreme Court.

The court’s four most conservative justices, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas, dissented from the order, indicating they would have let the clinics close.

From the New York Times:

The case concerns two parts of a state law that imposes strict requirements on abortion providers. One requires all abortion clinics in the state to meet the standards for “ambulatory surgical centers,” including regulations concerning buildings, equipment and staffing. The other requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

Other parts of the law took effect in 2013, causing about half of the state’s 41 abortion clinics to close.

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Obama’s Touching Reaction to the Supreme Court’s Gay Marriage Ruling Will Break Your Heart

by YMBOnitaty Posted on June 26, 2015

Mother Jones

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President Obama welcomed Friday morning’s Supreme Court decision clearing the way for marriage equality across the nation, hailing it as a crowning moment in a long, sometimes bitter struggle for LGBT civil rights in America. “It’s a victory for the allies and friends and supporters who spent years and even decades working and praying for change to come,” he said. “I know a change for many of our LGBT brothers and sisters must have seemed so slow for so long,” he continued, but added that the decision is evidence that “real change is possible…shifts in hearts and minds is possible.”

“Sometimes there are days like this, when that slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt,” he said.

While recognizing the impact of today’s decision from the court, Obama said this struggle for justice has also involved “countless small acts of courage” from the LGBT community—including the simple, and scary act of coming out to “parents who loved their children no matter what.” The decision owes credit to “folks who were willing to endure bullying and taunts, and stayed strong, and came to believe in themselves and who they were,” he said.

Watch highlights from his address from the White House above.

Read our full coverage of the decision here. You can also read some of the most outlandish statements in Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent here.

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