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Supreme Court rulings against Harvard, UNC unlikely to remove race completely from admissions

The U.S. Supreme Court could rule soon against the use of race in admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If so, it’s unlikely to mean an end to the use of race in college admissions. That’s the key point in a new Manhattan Institute report, “After Affirmative Action, Meritocracy?” Author Robert VerBruggen, a Manhattan Institute fellow, discusses his work.

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Locke’s Mitch Kokai discusses UNC admissions case at U.S. Supreme Court

Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the UNC-Chapel Hill admissions lawsuit at the U.S. Supreme Court. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 4, 2022, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”

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U.S. Supreme Court wrestles with fate of UNC’s race-based admissions

Supporters and critics will have to wait — likely until next June — to learn the fate of race-based admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The U.S. Supreme Court heard more than 2 1/2 hours of arguments Monday for and against UNC’s admissions policies.

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Locke’s Mitch Kokai discusses U.S. Supreme Court cases targeting UNC, Harvard admissions

Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s upcoming oral arguments in cases targeting race-based admissions policies at Harvard and UNC-Chapel Hill. Kokai offered these comments during an Oct. 28, 2022, appearance on One America News Network.

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Federal government’s top Supreme Court lawyer will take part in UNC admissions case

The U.S. solicitor general will take part in oral arguments next month in a U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with admissions policies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The nation’s highest court announced Friday that oral arguments on Oct. 31 will last 90 minutes. That’s 30 minutes longer than the time allotment originally announced.

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Is Central Piedmont Community College discriminating based on race?

Legal counsel for the Project on Fair Representation sent a letter to Central Piedmont Community College, because a fully funded fellowship program there is purportedly only open to “Black / African American” candidates. The April 18 letter warns the college “that you are likely violating the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Title VI and Title VII of the...

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Is woke ideology similar to Nazism?

NC Senator Julie Mayfield, D-Buncombe, said, “[b]ut he is not a Black woman, and I can’t disagree with the voices that say we just need more of that perspective.” Erica Smith, former NC Senator stated, “Do we need another white man in the Senate? No, we do not.” Lori Gilcrist, director of a nonprofit, told...

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