Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

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/

By the close of June, the Supreme Court will almost certainly end affirmative action in college admissions. ...

Affirmative Action Is in the Supreme Court’s Crosshairs

And the man who got it there is not, as he likes to claim, an iconoclastic one-person organization.

The Nation
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️
... For Edward Blum, who spearheaded the lawsuits against the University of North Carolina and Harvard - claiming the schools' race-conscious policies admit unqualified Black and Hispanic students, while "intentionally discriminating" against deserving Asian American applicants - the verdict would fulfill a decades-long quest.
Jun 22, 2023 at 4:52pmWeb
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023
... Blum has made a career of recruiting plaintiffs to challenge civil rights he opposes. His wins include Shelby County v. Holder in 2013, which nullified key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Less successful was Fisher v. University of Texas, decided in 2016, his first attempt to have the court undo affirmative action ...
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023
... Though Blum calls himself a "one-man organization," his work is financed by familiar right-wing entities. The Project on Fair Representation, one of Blum's many litigation nonprofits, began as an internal program of Donors Trust, a funding vehicle bankrolled by conservative mega-donors, including the Koch, DeVos, and Mercer families.
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023
... Donors Trust has also funneled more than $1.5 million to the white supremacist outlets VDARE & American Renaissance, both considered hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. (VDARE's take on the affirmative action case? It "would be a huge victory for whites, but Conservatism Inc. seems quite uncomfortable with stating that fact," an article on the VDARE site states. "The primary victims of Affirmative Action aren't Asians. They are whites - the group formerly known as 'Americans.'")
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023
... The Bradley Foundation, the Searle Freedom Trust, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation have all contributed to Blum's litigation. The 85 Fund, which donates to his work, is led by Leonard Leo, cochairman of the Federalist Society.
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023
... Blum and SFFA's amicus friends are frontline leaders in the anti-LGBTQ, climate denial, anti-"critical race theory," and anti-democratic movements. Many are also funded by the same donors as Blum. The SFFA amicus brief from the Claremont Institute - which, like Blum, gets funding from the DeVos Foundation - was written by Trump "coup attorney" John Eastman.
Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

... And Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, Ginni, sits on the board of another amicus filer, the National Association of Scholars. (Thomas hasn't recused himself in the affirmative action case, although Harvard Board of Overseers member Ketanji Brown Jackson has.)

American Enterprise Institute: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute
neoconservative neoliberal think tank

Claremont Institute
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Institute

Federalist Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society

American Enterprise Institute - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

Edward Blum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blum_(litigant)
conservative legal strategist known for his activism against affirmative action based on race and ethnicity

John Eastman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eastman

Leonard Leo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Leo
conservative activist; dark money; Federalist Society; U.S. Supreme Court influencer

National Association of Scholars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Scholars

Project on Fair Representation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Blum_(litigant)#Activism

Students for Fair Admissions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions

Edward Blum (litigant) - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

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Bradley Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Foundation

Donors Trust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Trust

Sarah Scaife Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaife_Foundations#Sarah_Scaife_Foundation

Searle Freedom Trust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searle_Freedom_Trust

VDARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDARE

Shelby County v. Holder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard

Donors Trust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Trust

Sarah Scaife Foundation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaife_Foundations#Sarah_Scaife_Foundation

Searle Freedom Trust
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searle_Freedom_Trust

VDARE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDARE

Bradley Foundation - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

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Shelby County v. Holder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard

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Shelby County v. Holder - Wikipedia

Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

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Show threadVictoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jun 22, 2023

... Relevant previous thread re: Leonard Leo

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110563370389065387

New Details From Leonard Leo's Trust Fund Expose the Inner Workings of the Right
Newly obtained documents shed light on a vast & corrupt right-wing influence network
https://truthout.org/articles/new-details-from-leonard-leos-trust-fund-expose-the-inner-workings-of-the-right/

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New Details From Leonard Leo’s Trust Fund Expose the Inner Workings of the Right

Newly obtained documents shed light on a vast and corrupt right-wing influence network.

Truthout