Authors:

  • Noah Feldman

Excerpt

Affirmative Action Will Die Another Day. Noah Feldman, April 23, 2014, Opinion. "If the Supreme Court’s affirmative action jurisprudence were a Bond movie, it would be “Die Another Day.” Or “Live and Let Die.” Or … well, you get the point. For decades Justice Anthony Kennedy has been puzzling over how to kill affirmative action without delivering the death blow. Yesterday he got a step closer to an answer in the court’s decision to uphold a popularly adopted Michigan constitutional amendment banning racial preferences in state hiring or education. But what will be remembered from the case is probably the stirring dissent by Justice Sonia ..." Link