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BeckyDem

(8,361 posts) Mon Jan 24, 2022, 12:27 PM Jan 2022

( Tweet ) SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to hear

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( Tweet ) SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog BREAKING: The Supreme Court agrees to hear (Original Post) BeckyDem Jan 2022 OP

Same folks that got the court to gut the Voting Rights Act maxrandb Jan 2022 #1

How would a white student be able to prove specific harm to get standing for such a lawsuit? Buckeyeblue Jan 2022 #2

It is the Asians who are discriminated against. former9thward Jan 2022 #3

The Goosestepping March WHITT Jan 2022 #4

maxrandb

(15,393 posts)

1. Same folks that got the court to gut the Voting Rights Act

Reply to BeckyDem (Original post)

Mon Jan 24, 2022, 12:31 PM

Jan 2022

Now get them to consider Affirmative Action.

I mean, the Supreme Court takes up so many cases, it's just normal they would repeatedly take cases from the same law firms, right?

Buckeyeblue

(5,505 posts)

2. How would a white student be able to prove specific harm to get standing for such a lawsuit?

Reply to BeckyDem (Original post)

Mon Jan 24, 2022, 12:47 PM

Jan 2022

Even if a college set x number of admission spots for minority candidates, that doesn't mean a particular white candidate his harmed by the policy, right?