Supreme Court - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Sun, 14 Aug 2022 21:06:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg Supreme Court - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 Affirmative Action, Race-Conscious College Admissions to be Challenged this Fall  https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2022/08/15/affirmative-action-race-conscious-college-admissions-to-be-challenged-this-fall/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=affirmative-action-race-conscious-college-admissions-to-be-challenged-this-fall Mon, 15 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=15576 The Supreme Court will decide whether affirmative action in college admissions is constitutional in an upcoming court case against Harvard and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, threatening campus diversity, equity, inclusion initiatives, and minority recruitment programs. In early 2021, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a nonprofit organization that aims to ‘eliminate race and ethnicity […]

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]]> 15576 Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed by Senate as the next Supreme Court Justice https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2022/04/07/ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmed-by-senate-as-the-next-supreme-court-justice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ketanji-brown-jackson-confirmed-by-senate-as-the-next-supreme-court-justice Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:18:26 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=15191 In a 53-47 vote, the Senate confirmed Kentaji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman and the first former public defender to serve on the Supreme Court, on April 7. Jackson will reportedly be sworn in after Justice Stephen Breyer retires in the summer. Only three Republicans joined Democrats in their vote in favor of […]

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]]> 15191 The President’s Nominee: A Conversation with Chief Judge Merrick Garland https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2016/10/02/the-presidents-nominee-a-conversation-with-chief-judge-merrick-garland/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-presidents-nominee-a-conversation-with-chief-judge-merrick-garland Mon, 03 Oct 2016 03:04:33 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=7683 By Paul Holston, Editor-in-Chief Posted 11:00 PM EST, Sun., Oct. 2, 2016 With Howard University’s Moot Court Room packed full of students, faculty and administrators, the conversation of the day came when Danielle Holley, dean of the Howard University School of Law, sat down with Chief Judge Merrick Garland during an arm chair conversation Tuesday, September 20. #HUSL […]

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