Monday, October 31

The more people you offer crutches to who don't need them, the more cripples your society creates

or, "We're going the wrong way!" 

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"By the end of five hours of vigorous and sometimes testy arguments, a majority of the justices appeared ready to reconsider decades of precedents and to rule that the programs were unlawful."

 Writes Adam Liptack in the NYT.

ADDED: You can read the transcripts for the 2 cases here (University of North Carolina) and here (Harvard).

AND: From Robert Barnes and Ann E. Marimow in The Washington Post: "Conservative Supreme Court justices on Monday seemed open to ending decades of precedent allowing race-conscious admission decisions at colleges and universities, repeatedly expressing doubt that the institutions would ever concede an 'endpoint' in their use of race to build diverse student bodies."