Congressman Glenn Ivey Issues Statement on Supreme Court's Opinion Regarding Affirmative Action
June 30, 2023
June 30, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Maryland, issued the following statement on June 29, 2023:
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As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, "Our country has never been colorblind [g]iven the lengthy history of state-sanctioned race-based preferences in America." And yet, the Supreme Court today turned a blind eye to this history, striking down the consideration of race in college admissions as if generations of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow did not . . .
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As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote, "Our country has never been colorblind [g]iven the lengthy history of state-sanctioned race-based preferences in America." And yet, the Supreme Court today turned a blind eye to this history, striking down the consideration of race in college admissions as if generations of slavery, segregation, and Jim Crow did not . . .