Issues & Insights: Virginia High School Racial Discrimination Case Deserves Supreme Court Hearing, Too

The Supreme Court ruled affirmative action unconstitutional in June. But that hasn’t stopped the multibillion-dollar Diversity Equity and Inclusion complex from hatching schemes to continue race-based school admissions using racial proxies and narrative essay prompts.

If the Court agrees to hear the Thomas Jefferson High School case, Wai Wah Chin writes, it could clarify that indirect schemes of racial preferences are just as pernicious and unconstitutional as overt affirmative action.

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The history of ‘unconstitutional conditions’

“Your money or your life!” The armed bandit’s classic demand offers no good options. But what if the bandit wears an Uncle Sam mask? This is the basis of the “unconstitutional conditions” doctrine, which enforces limits on the government’s ability to demand that property owners hand over land or money.

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Daily Journal: Bump stocks, machine guns, and the rule of lenity

Garland v. Cargill is, on its face, a Supreme Court case about whether a “bump stock” qualifies as a machine gun. But on a deeper level, Glenn Roper says, it’s about whether a federal agency can decide by itself to make something a crime.

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