Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, said the ruling corrects a tendency in some lower courts to treat “reverse discrimination” claims differently.
Supreme Court rules for straight woman in reverse discrimination case
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"It’s very open to constitutional challenge and hard to defend from the state’s point of view," said Walter Olson, a specialist on constitutional law and public policy at the Cato Institute. "The equal protection clause is at its strictest when it comes to explicit racial classifications made by government in dispensing rights."
Democratic-run states, cities using a race-based system to distribute scarce COVID-19 treatments
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