Skirting courts race-quota ban, NYs deceptive abortion law and other commentary
The Supreme Court ban on “race-based affirmative action was expected to change elite universities’ demographics substantially,” yet “several top universities, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Penn, and Duke, have seen little to none of the expected shift in the racial composition,” reports Matthew Liley at City Journal.Universities “are either breaking the law,” or they misled the Supreme Court when “they declared race-neutral methods insufficient to achieve their diversity goals.”One way they may have maintained their racial demographics is via “diversity targets” — i.e., “awarding applicants bonus points based on socioeconomic factors.” Another, more sinister, possible reason: “Their admissions officers are ignoring the ruling” and still considering race by pushing “race-neutral admissions policies that are neutral in name only.”“New York state Democrats are using the political salience of abortion” to push woke madness, argues James Lynch at National Review.Proposal 1 — also known as the New York Equal Rights Amendment — would implement a “sweeping expansion of the state constitution’s equal-protection clause” via “vague and all-encompassing language” around race, national origin and gender.It “would allow progressive groups to pursue litigation to erode parental rights, permitting confused children to receive puberty blockers without parental consent and enabling males to play sports against women and girls.”It would also “defang efforts to enforce immigration law and could even be used to help illegal immigrants gain access to welfare benefits.”In other words, it would “codify the most extreme elements” of left-wing ideology into the state Constitution.Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.
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