Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. Official Official Headshot
Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. | Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. Official Official Headshot
In 6-to-3 vote far-right judges abolish special considerations for minority candidates in college admissions
Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) this morning criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s narrowminded ending of affirmative action in college admissions, ending decades of positive precedent and practices.
“On June 29th’s decision by this right-wing Supreme Court wipes away decades of legal precedent that have had a net positive impact on America and on the lives of generations of brilliant students,” said Congressman Pascrell. “Whether we like it or not, racism and bigotry remain endemic across sectors of American. Affirmative action is a small and an imperfect tool to fixing these inequities. Its abolition on June 29 will bring harm on countless bright young students who have striven so hard and will now find it yet harder still to find life success.
“Once again, this partisan, unelected court is enacting by fiat far-right policies Republicans have been unable or too scared to enact at the ballot box. These judges can wave this misguided decision like a magic wand and pronounce that America is now a colorblind society. But it is not so, and they know it.”
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