Supreme Court Weighs Cases Redefining Legal Equality
By ADAM LIPTAK, NYT
WASHINGTON — Within days, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a series of decisions that could transform three fundamental social institutions: marriage, education and voting.
The extraordinary run of blockbuster rulings due in the space of a single week will also reshape the meaning of legal equality and help define for decades to come one of the Constitution’s grandest commands: “the equal protection of the laws.”
If those words require only equal treatment from the government, the rulings are likely to be a mixed bag that will delight and disappoint liberals and conservatives in equal measure. Under that approach, same-sex couples who want to marry would be better off at the end of the term, while blacks and Hispanics could find it harder to get into college and to vote.
But a tension runs through the cases, one based on different conceptions of equality. Some justices are committed to formal equality. Others say the Constitution requires a more dynamic kind of equality, one that takes account of the weight of history and of modern disparities.
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WASHINGTON — Within days, the Supreme Court is expected to issue a series of decisions that could transform three fundamental social institutions: marriage, education and voting.
The extraordinary run of blockbuster rulings due in the space of a single week will also reshape the meaning of legal equality and help define for decades to come one of the Constitution’s grandest commands: “the equal protection of the laws.”
If those words require only equal treatment from the government, the rulings are likely to be a mixed bag that will delight and disappoint liberals and conservatives in equal measure. Under that approach, same-sex couples who want to marry would be better off at the end of the term, while blacks and Hispanics could find it harder to get into college and to vote.
But a tension runs through the cases, one based on different conceptions of equality. Some justices are committed to formal equality. Others say the Constitution requires a more dynamic kind of equality, one that takes account of the weight of history and of modern disparities.
(More here.)
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I think any job, or college should take who they want, IF they do not take one cent of public money. That would mean no police or emergency services. IF the taxpayers have to pay for something, it needs to have equal opportunity.
What white people do not understand is that minorities have been forced to support the white majority to have the tools to get richer and reduce the number of minorities and women in all areas. WHEN these disparities are no longer in question......it will be time to change. Everyone wants to whine about "my little white kid, who went to private schools, or a public school academy" should be put ahead of a minority child who went to a gang filled, bad education, horrible school, where parents paid rent, and taxes to pay the benefits that went to that college or university.
There is not one single medical school in America that is not subsidized by public funds. Yet the scholarships often go to rich white parents who give very narrowly defined scholarships that manage to go to their own children.
The laws have been put in place to make our world more equal. If you or your child does not get to go to THE school they want to.......well,well, they might as well get used to it, they are more than likely not to get everything they want all the time anyway.
Find another school, if they are so smart, they will make it anyway. Both my niece and nephew were accepted in a very prestigious law school......my niece one in 300 accepted out of thousands of applicants. White or not, she got accepted because she went to a good high school, volunteered, was a Girl Scout, and got top grades. She went to college, every class at the top, volunteered in legal programs, and joined a sorority that only did service.......not drinking and animal house. Of course she got in, she had met the professors while volunteering for years in their pet projects at her own expense, and still maintaining high grades.
A friend's daughter did NOT get in where she wanted. She went to another school, volunteered, and found low paying jobs in her field for internships. SHE did get in for her graduate degrees at the school of her choice. Because she was excellent, not whining.
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