Sentences with phrase «against racial preferences»

Liberals fear and conservatives hope that the reconstituted court of Chief Justice John G. Roberts will rule against racial preferences.

Republicans were against racial preferences in 1860 and are still against them in 2016.

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So most of their newly hired minority lawyers have relatively weak academic records that would have brought rejection had they been white -LSB-...] Many capable African - Americans experience frustration and failure because racial preferences thrust them into elite settings where they compete against whites with far better qualifications -LSB-...]

These cases include the recent constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act and the decisions invalidating Sarbanes - Oxley's accounting board, preventing the Justice Department from obtaining monetary relief against the tobacco industry under RICO, overturning the federal government's plan to statistically adjust the census, limiting the Justice Department's ability to create «majority - minority» districts, and upholding Proposition 209's ban on racial preferences in California

The district court found that Daniels discriminated against Reed by: (1) denying her a dwelling on the basis of her race; (2) misrepresenting that the dwelling was not available for rent; (3) making statements indicating a racial preference or limitation; and (4) denying her equal rights.