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Justice Scalia Confused About 14th Amendment's Meaning - Political Maniacs

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Channel: The Fowler Show · 2013 · News & Politics

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No friend of affirmative action, voting rights protections, or anything he deems "racial entitlements," the high court's least inhibited conservative was at it again this week during oral arguments in a case in which advocates for minorities are challenging Michigan's voter-approved ban on affirmative action in college admissions. The case reached the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court held the ban violates the 14th Amendment's equal protection guarantee, in that it prevents minorities from lobbying for racial preferences, when other groups can lobby for their favored programs, Huffpo explained.

A lawyer challenging the ban argued that the original goal of the 14th Amendment was to protect minority rights against a white majority.

Scalia begged to differ. "My goodness," he said. "I thought we've held that the 14th Amendment protects all races. I mean, that was the argument in the early years, that it protected only—only the blacks. But I thought we rejected that. You say now that we have to proceed as though its purpose is not to protect whites, only to protect minorities?"
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