The SCOTUS decision regarding MI affirmative action.

[boston bean]

This is really really bad news.

It's an MRA wet dream.

That a woman is responsible for this agitation leaves me dumbfounded.

It is mainly women who benefited from this protection.

Libertarian shit stains, and men wanting to revert back to the good old days and white people (men and woman) feeling it is they who are discriminated against, don't have a clue as to what real life discrimination feels or looks like.

This woman has done more harm to women than Phyllis Schlafly could have dreamt of.

No one was more thrilled with Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision to uphold Michigan’s affirmative action ban than Jennifer Gratz.

Her name wasn’t on the Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action case — but it may as well have been. It was Gratz’s rejection from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 1995 that set the court’s decision in motion.

Gratz is the woman who inspired two separate cases before the Supreme Court on affirmative action in higher education, ending with the justices’ 6-2 ruling Tuesday that upheld a constitutional amendment in Michigan that voters approved in 2006. It bans preferential treatment based on race, gender, ethnicity or national origin.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/jennifer-gratz-affirmative-action-michigan-105913.html#ixzz2ziNk86va

This ruling basically leaves those who have been discriminated against with no recourse. The court has shut its doors to this issue. The court will no longer protect the minority from the majority. Seems like the only recourse left is to amend the constitution.

Time long since past, to get the ERA ratified. This ruling could help to re-ignite those passions. Race and sexual preference ought to be added to it, to make it absolutely clear the intent of the proposed amendment. If it's not obvious to all now, laws can be changed, or made to be null in many different ways. It's time to clear this shit up once and for all.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. There was a time limit on the original ERA acceptance, no?

So a lot of what was done would have to be redone, but sure by now things have swung around enough to give it another try. Especially if it's expanded, as you suggest.

As you say, it's past time to get it passed.

[MadrasT]

2. I am not sure how the ERA would fix that.

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.

To me, it says the same thing as banning preferential treatment based on gender. You can't discriminate against women, but you also can't favor them.

If you added race and sexual preference to the ERA, it would seems to completely negate the possibility of affirmative action measures.

I am not arguing against affirmative action, I am just saying the ERA would also seem to make affirmative action impossible (if you expanded it to include race).

(What am I not understanding? Because I really don't know a damn thing about it.)

[boston bean]

3. Up until now there have only been laws affording these protections.

The way things are going there is no recourse in the courts.

An amendment that states equal rights women, minorities, the courts will be forced to uphold. People could bring suits.

Right now, they are stating these laws themselves are discriminatory. We need the amendment. That will put this to rest.

[redqueen]

7. Lawsuits on behalf of children in school districts in poverty-stricken areas? nt

[boston bean]

8. I would think so.

[redqueen]

4. Perfect. This dovetails nicely with the resegregation of public schools along with all their unfair

opportunities.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024839775

http://www.npr.org/2012/03/09/148299511/questions-grow-over-race-discipline-report

Women like her make me absolutely sick. She probably spends a lot of time talking about not being a victim.

[CrispyQ]

5. Just another arrogant upper middle class white person who doesn't recognize their privilege.

She probably thinks she pulled herself up by her own bootstraps & that everyone else has the same frickin' bootstraps.

[ismnotwasm]

6. Yup

Exactly.