DeadlinePlaywrights Horizons Sued Over Discount Tickets For BIPOC Audiences
#Legal #News #EdwardBlum #KevinLynch #PlaywrightsHorizons
https://deadline.com/2025/12/playwrights-horizons-lawsuit-1236655764/
Jonathan EmmesediEdward Blum has devoted his life to litigation designed to crush attempts to remedy the injustices suffered by the USA's disfavored minorities.
Now he, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin who made his money as a stockbroker in Houston, is trying to sink a scholarship fund dedicated to Hispanic students.
White spite at its worst!
Image: Francis Chung -- E&E News -- Politico via AP Images
#USPolitics #EdwardBlum #AmericanAllianceForEqualRights #HispanicScholarshipFund #Racism #Texas
NonilexU.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash during a hearing denied a request by #EdwardBlum's #AmericanAllianceForEqualRights for a preliminary #injunction blocking #FearlessFund from considering applications for #grants only from businesses led by #BlackWomen.
(#Blum is a #conservative #legal strategist known for his activism against #AffirmativeAction)
jackhutton 🇺🇸Jane Mayer has some good Leonard Leo stories.. interesting conversation here. "the Dark Money Supreme court" @NewYorker Evan osnos, Susan B Glaser Jane Mayer https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-political-scene-the-new-yorker/id268213039?i=1000618934332 #scotus #leonardLeo #EDWARDBLUM
Patrick, Grand ArbiterHey #edwardblum, eat shit!
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“Let Them Eat Cake Obliviousness”: Liberal Justices Blast Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Affirmative Action
The most searing lines from the court’s dissent
https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2023/06/supreme-court-affirmative-action-dissent/
“A Tragedy for Us All”: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Dissent
The justice did not mince words in her dissent of the conservative supermajority’s decision striking down affirmative action in college admissions
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kbj-dissent-affirmative-action/
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Supreme Court guts affirmative action, ending race-conscious admissions
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1181138066/affirmative-action-supreme-court-decision
Supreme Court Just Ended Affirmative Action
The rulings seriously curtail race-conscious college admissions, effectively ending a decades-old policy
https://newrepublic.com/post/174010/supreme-court-just-ended-affirmative-action
Did Justice Jackson Sneak a Loophole into the Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Ban?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/harvard-personal-essays-affirmative-action-supreme-court/
When It Comes to the Supreme Court, We Don’t Have to Live Like This
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2023/06/29/when-it-comes-to-the-supreme-court-we-dont-have-to-live-like-this
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Read the Supreme Court decision reversing decades of precedent on affirmative action
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1185048706/affirmative-action-supreme-court-opinion
The Supreme Court ruled in a 237-page opinion that race-conscious admissions are unconstitutional in cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The ruling in the UNC case was 6-3 along ideological lines; in the Harvard case, it was 6-2, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson recusing herself.
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Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Court’s Crosshairs
And the man (Edward Blum) who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/affirmative-action-edward-blum/
Edward Blum
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110588914123333787
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U.S. Supreme Court delivers setback to affirmative action in college admissions
Ruling expected to have big consequences for the many U.S. colleges that consider race in admissions
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-supreme-court-colleges-affirmative-action-1.6892475
SCOTUS ruled in favour of a group called Students for Fair Admissions, founded by anti-affirmative action activist Edward Blum
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#EdwardBlum #StudentsForFairAdmissions #SFFA #SCOTUS #conservatism #education #AffirmativeAction
U.S. Supreme Court delivers setback to affirmative action in college admissions | CBC News
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down race-conscious student admissions programs currently used at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in a sharp setback to affirmative action policies often used to increase the number of Black, Hispanic and other underrepresented minority groups on campuses.