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Monday, October 14, 2013

“Supreme Court tackles new affirmative action case”: Bill Mears of CNN.com has this report.

AnnArbor.com reports that “Arguments in affirmative action Supreme Court case draw U-M students to Washington D.C.

Tuesday’s edition of The Detroit News will contain an article headlined “Gratz: Journey to end racial preferences started 16 years ago.”

Today’s broadcast of WBUR Radio’s “Here & Now” contained an audio segment titled “Supreme Court To Hear Michigan Affirmative Action Case.”

Today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times contains an editorial titled “Affirmative action’s latest test: The Supreme Court will decide whether voters may ban racial preferences at state universities.”

And columnist Stephen Henderson of The Detroit Free Press has an op-ed titled “Affirmative action ruling aside, Michigan needs to have real talk about race.”

Posted at 11:30 PM by Howard Bashman



“Gov’t moves to keep NSA surveillance lawsuit away from Supreme Court; Gov’t doesn’t want critics of NSA spying to take their case to the high court”: Joe Mullin of Ars Technica has this report.

Posted at 11:18 PM by Howard Bashman



“A Fresh Chance to Rein in Racial Preferences: The Supreme Court’s Fisher decision last spring has been largely ignored; Now the justices can strengthen it.” Richard D. Kahlenberg has this op-ed today in The Wall Street Journal.

Posted at 1:20 PM by Howard Bashman



“Inside the new Supreme Court session with the National Constitution Center’s Jeffrey Rosen”: You can access the audio from today’s broadcast of WHYY Radio’s “Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane” at this link.

Posted at 1:04 PM by Howard Bashman



“Affirmative Action Back at the Supreme Court, With a Twist”: Ariane de Vogue has this post today at the ABC News blog “The Note.”

Posted at 10:44 AM by Howard Bashman



“Prop. 8 campaign wants disclosure laws waived”: In yesterday’s edition of The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko had an article that begins, “Supporters of California’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage are back in court arguing for an exemption from the state’s campaign disclosure laws because of threats and harassment they said they have received from gay-rights supporters.”

You can access at this link the audio of last Friday’s oral argument before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Posted at 8:40 AM by Howard Bashman