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...Anthony Kennedy's language, given this court's allergy to broad social pronouncements. "The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives," Kennedy argued. "The State cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime." The court's majority based its landmark decision on a belief in "a realm of personal liberty which the government may not enter." To opponents, it meant that any law based mainly on moral norms was now vulnerable; to supporters, it meant that the court had recognized the legitimacy of homosexual relations, so any law that discriminates...
...these three characteristics, I suppose I add some diversity to most discussions I'm a part of. But at most colleges and workplaces in America, something else about me would make me add much more diversity. I'm black. And as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in a landmark Supreme Court opinion last week, borrowing language from a lower court, once a few people like me are sitting in a classroom, "discussion is livelier, more spirited and simply more enlightening and interesting." In her defense of affirmative action, O'Connor argued that our presence "helps to break down racial...
...they announced the big news. Iyman Faris, 34, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Kashmir, had pleaded guilty at the beginning of May to providing material support to al-Qaeda. Not only had he scoped out the Brooklyn Bridge as part of a plot to destroy the New York City landmark, but he had also tried to obtain equipment to help derail a train near the nation's capital. The feds had done more than nab a truck driver from Columbus, Ohio, who was leading what Ashcroft called "a secret double life," a man determined to wreak havoc right here...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Supporters of affirmative action in higher education—including Harvard’s top administrators—breathed a sigh of relief Monday as the Supreme Court delivered two landmark rulings upholding the use of race as a factor in admissions...
...we—those in the Harvard LGBT community as well as Harvard students more broadly—heard little or nothing from BGLTSA, BOND or even the nascent QRF about Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, and only a bit more than that about Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark case decided yesterday by the U.S. Supreme Court. That opinion, in overturning sodomy laws in the 13 states in which they remain, could pave the way for equal rights for gays on a national scale. We didn’t hear about various pieces of legislation...