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Volume 8: Issue 4
Point-Counterpoint: Affirmative Action Hiring Practices in the New Court Era
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Two things that the past few months have proved about the Supreme Court, when it comes to civil rights: five justices insist on interpreting statutory language to mean what it says, and are very, very skeptical about racial and ethnic preferences....