Politics update

Michael Steele - Affirmative action asks schools to consider race as A factor in student admissions, so Black student population at elite institutions must be AMAZING!

Well...

 Harvard 6.6% Yale 6.5% Brown 7.0% Princeton 4.7% Columbia 5.1% Cornell 5.0% I can see why folks want to get rid of it.

 

 In 1971, Justice Thomas was admitted to Yale's Law School as part of the affirmative action practice according to PBS, which reported that the school wanted 10 percent of its incoming class that year to be students of color. . . . While speaking with MSNBC on Thursday, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President Derrick Johnson spoke about the affirmative action decision and ruling by Justice Thomas. "The worst thing about affirmative action is that it created a Clarence Thomas who benefited from the program and now is in a position where he's going to deny many young African American talented individuals an opportunity," Johnson said.

 

Ron DeSantis pledged on Wednesday that he would eliminate four federal agencies if he were elected president: the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, and Department of Education.

 

Supreme Court protects religious choice while dumping ethnic status 

 

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Dissent

 

Yet another high ranking Republican official has been ensnared in a corruption scandal, and this one has landed him behind bars for an eye-popping maximum sentence of 20 years. Ohio House Speaker Larry Lee Householder was found guilty of running a $60 million bribery scheme, the largest such scheme in the history of the state. Householder attempted to take $60 million from FirstEnergy Corp in exchange for his support of legislation that would bail out the company to the tune of $1 billion dollars. The legislation was passed after he became Speaker.