Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials (LA Times)

Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they …

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Florida Approves Controversial Set Of Black History Standards (Taiyler S. Mitchell)

The Florida Board of Education has approved a controversial set of academic standards for African American social studies classes in K-12 schools.  The standards, which are being released as Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Florida Republicans have continued a crusade against public education, include language that states “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied …

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Judge blocks new Florida election law, signed by DeSantis this spring, calling it the ‘latest assault on the right to vote'(Charles R. Davis)

Calling it Florida’s “latest assault on the right to vote,” a federal judge on Monday put a temporary hold on a new election law that would have imposed more limits on voter registration efforts. In May, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed SB 7050, a package of Republican-sponsored reforms to Florida’s election system, including a ban on …

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The Supreme Court Finally Gets Affirmative Action Right (Bruce Thornton)

After 45 years of bad decisions rationalizing discrimination outlawed by Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court finally voted 6-3 to end affirmative action and the use of racial preferences in college admissions. This outcome joins the Dobbs vs. Jackson decision last June as another major pushback against activist Supreme …

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Opinion: The Supreme Court rewrites American society once again (CNN)

To say that I’m disappointed in today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in college admissions would be an understatement. I am the daughter of immigrants: My father immigrated from the Philippines when he was 17, and my maternal grandparents immigrated from Taiwan in the 1960s. I was born in Los Angeles, surrounded by dozens of family …

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Affirmative action’s fatal flaw (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)

Say what you like about progressives in America and their nebulous calls for “racial equity”, but they got one thing right: college admissions have always been a zero-sum game. With limited places at the prestigious universities and tens of millions of applicants, some sort of discrimination in deciding who gets accepted is inevitable. The question …

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