2023-06-29 18:56:00
The Supreme Court decided, this Thursday, June 29, to end the positive discrimination programs. A decision welcomed by the conservatives.
Source AFP Ideological victory for Donald Trump and the Republicans. © ANDY BUCHANAN / AFP Published on 06/29/2023 at 6:54 p.m. – Modified on 06/29/2023 at 7:04 p.m.
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Donald Trump and his party can congratulate each other. The Supreme Court of the United States has just put an end to the programs of positive discrimination at the university, one of the hobbyhorses of the American Conservative Party. For the legal institution, the end of positive discrimination will make it possible to restore “equality” between students.
“Today is a great day for America,” the former president wrote on his Truth Social platform. “We are going back to (a system) entirely based on merit and that’s how it should be! ” he added. ” [Cette décision] will also enable us to remain competitive in the rest of the world. Our brightest minds need to be treated well and that is what this wonderful day brings,” he said.
McCarthy congratulates this decision
Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy said the High Court now allows students to “compete on the basis of equal standards and individual merit”. “This will make the college admissions process fairer and confirm equality before the law,” he tweeted. And the tenor Republican in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, felt that “racial discrimination has no[vait] no place in university admission”.
“Today’s ruling makes it clear that universities cannot continue to discriminate against bright and ambitious students on the basis of their skin color,” he said in a statement. The governor of Florida and aspirant to the White House, Ron DeSantis, ruled that the Supreme Court had by its decision upheld the Constitution “and put an end to discrimination by universities”.
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While former US ambassador to the UN and 2024 Republican primary candidate Nikki Haley hailed a decision that “will help every student, regardless of background, have a better chance of achieving the American dream “. Finally, the conservative organization America First Legal, chaired by Stephen Miller, a close friend of Donald Trump, hailed “a historic victory for fair justice in America”.
“But now the real work begins,” Miller said in a statement. “We expect many universities across America to either maintain their current policies or do everything possible to circumvent this ruling to continue to discriminate on the basis of race,” he said, pledging a legal battle. For his part, US President Joe Biden expressed his “strong disagreement” with the Supreme Court’s decision.
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