DATE DECIDED 6/23/03 CASE Gratz v. Bollinger WHAT WAS AT STAKE Is the University of Michigan’s affirmative action program constitutional? RESULT No, because it gets too specific about its diversity goals and methods. RBG SAYS “Actions designed to burden groups long denied full citizenship stature are not sensibly ranked with measures taken to hasten the day when entrenched discrimination and its after effects have been extirpated,” RBG wrote in her dissent.
Last night, my dad and I were discussing the fact that Biden plans to replace Justice Breyer with a black woman. My dads stance on this being, it is racist to only pick from black women. My stance being on it, that for the past 200 years we were only picking from pools of white men and it wasn't until recently that we got more diversity. However, we still have a majority men (6:3) and a majority white (8:1), so the diversity is still sorely lacking. It is not racist to rule out candidates who already make up a majority of the court. However, I do think it de-values the appointment to publically announce you are only picking from a group of black females. It also gives the conservatives fuel to disrespect the person by saying "she only got it because she's a black woman" like what they say about VP Harris
