affimitative Action

Question 1

What is affirmative action ?

Answer 1

Programme giving members previously disadvantage minority group a head start e.g education or employment

Question 2

What was a critism to affirmative action

Answer 2

Abigail Fisher a white woman in Texas applied to university of Texas but was ejected and filed a lawsuit saying she faced racial discrimination because minority students with less better qualifications than her were accepted

Question 3

What are the advantages of affirmative action

Answer 3

1. Reverse decades of discrimination
2. Most meaningful method to promote equality opportunities
3. Diversity

Question 4

Weakness of affirmative action

Answer 4

1. Lowers aspiration of minority groups based on racial preference and imply they need a helping hand to succeed so demeaning their achievements
2. Advantages one group and disadvantage another so reverse discrimination

Question 5

YES, Supreme Court plays an effective role in protecting minority rights

Answer 5

• Rode v wave - gave women the right to choose (liberal view of minority rights)
  But Dobbs vs Jackson protected rights to life (conservative view of minority rights)
• obergefell v hodges (2015) same sec marriages across states (liberal view of minority rights )

Question 6

What powers does Supreme Court have

Answer 6

Sovereign powers when making decisions as more powerful than president and congress as they cannot threaten/bribe to remove justices

Question 7

NO, Supreme Court protecting minority rights is limited

Answer 7

1. Trump V Hawaii (2018) - religious predujice
2. Student for fair admission V Harvard and student for fair admission V university of North Carolina (2023) : field that affirmative action for black student was Unconstitutional. Liberals : compromise chances of disadvantaged
   Conservative view : protects white from unnecessary discrimination

Question 8

Examples of affirmative actions

Answer 8

1. Students for fair admission v Harvard and students for fair admission v university of North Carolina (2023) said it was against 14th amendment
2. Fisher v university of Texas (2016)
3. Schuette (Michigan) V coalition to defend affirmative action (2014) - 14th amendment did not prevent individuals state gov to ban affirmative actions plan in education if they wanted to