Thursday, May 01, 2014

Six Supremely Absurd Court Statements on Affirmative Action - Higher Education

Six Supremely Absurd Court Statements on Affirmative Action - Higher Education: Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a voter-approved Michigan law that bans affirmative action in the college admissions process. On a 6-2 vote in Schuette v. BAMN, the Supreme Court reversed the opinion of the Sixth Circuit Court that struck down the law.

Over the weekend, I took some time to read all of the opinions from the case. Aside from Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor judicious and forthright 58-page dissent, I felt like I was reading scripts from the theater of the absurd.

I have listed below what I consider the six most absurd statements from the opinions.