White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Thursday that President Barack Obama’s views on race and affirmative action are quite different than those of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a Wednesday hearing on a major affirmative action case, Scalia suggested that such policies send black students to schools too advanced for them. Earnest addressed Scalia’s remarks during his daily media briefing.
“I think the comments articulated by Justice Scalia represent quite a different view than the priorities and the values that President Obama has spent his career talking about,” Earnest said.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) also bashed Scalia’s comments Thursday, calling them “stunning,” “deeply disturbing,” and “racist.”
Scalia: How would Obama really know as Obama mother was white.
Hey Josh! Can you put up something about the goofy Trump supporter in New Hampshire who said that before The Donald came along she had nothing to do with politics?
Her name is STATE REPRESENTATIVE Susan DeLemus.
The comments would be priceless.
I think we can safely say that Obama’s and Scalia’s views on just about any topic are wildly divergent, not the least since Scalia will automatically take a contrary view to the President regardless of topic.
Conservative justices searching for the best example of affirmative action gone awry need look no further than their own chambers. Clarence Thomas was never qualified for the high court (indeed the American Bar Association rated him “unqualified”), and has done little to establish his credibility as a jurist since his appointment. But Papa Bush nominated him because the GOP wanted a black conservative ideologue to replace the abundantly qualified Thurgood Marshall … or perhaps it was an attempt to undermine affirmative action by applying it in farce.
UT Austin has maintained throughout this ordeal, Fisher was never getting in to their school. Fisher’s GPA and SAT scores weren’t high enough, and she didn’t have enough external accomplishments to convince the school to give her a shot otherwise. For what it’s worth Fisher is from affluent Sugar Land, DeLay’s old district