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Scotus affirmative action case8/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() At Harvard, where I went, the district court actually did find a thing that maybe could have possibly discriminated against AAPI students, but that wasn’t anything about affirmative action. AAPI students are more likely to get into the University of North Carolina than Black students. In the suit against North Carolina, the district court literally found there was no discrimination at North Carolina against AAPI students. The record of the case actually shows that the aggrieved party, this group of AAPI students who allegedly were discriminated against because of race-based admissions, actually weren’t discriminated against, just on the straight facts of the case. During the live show, each of our panelists tried to tell the backstory of three of the most important cases that the court will decide this June-cases about affirmative action, voting rights, and anti-gay discrimination. But the specifics of the doctrine are only a teeny part of the story. One of our chief conclusions was that we tend to talk about decisions in a vacuum, as if they came from nowhere, and the only interesting thing about them is their legal reasoning. The package, called “ Disorder in the Court ,” culminated in a live Amicus show to dissect what we found, and try to set us up better for this end-of-term. Last week, Slate took a close look at how the media covers the Supreme Court, and how we could do better. Sign up for the pop-up newsletter to stay up to date all through June, and support our work when you join Slate Plus. ![]() We’re working to change the way the media covers the Supreme Court. This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. ![]()
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