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...only thing that the justices agreed about was that they didn’t have a lot of respect for [Chief Justice Fred M.] Vinson,” Klarman said, referring to the Court??s first hearing of the case in December...
...four front-page articles in the series were strategically published before the Supreme Court??s June ruling on affirmative action...
According to Golden and Gary Putka, the Journal’s Boston bureau chief and Golden’s editor, the articles may have influenced the Supreme Court??s decision to uphold the constitutionality of affirmative action. Putka said the stories had been credited for making it difficult for the Court to vote against affirmative action. “[A justice] gave backhanded compliments to the stories,” Putka said. “I think the story may have had something to do with [the ruling...
...There was an abiding interest [at the Journal] for a couple of years in writing about this subject,” Putka said. “As we got closer to the [Supreme Court??s] decision, a couple of things started coming into focus...
...vouchers or charter schools, “school choice” is increasingly popular with minority parents otherwise unable to escape decrepit government schools in Cleveland, Detroit and other large cities. While the 14 years since Milwaukee first attempted a voucher system have seen such milestones as the Supreme Court??s 2002 ruling in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which stated that vouchers could be used at religious schools, and this year’s federal government program to provide vouchers to students in failing D.C. schools, there has really been more heat than light. Though there are less...