Supreme Court does away with race-based college admissions – National & International News – THU 28Jun2023

Supreme Court does away with race-based college admissions.

Indiana: Delphi murders suspect “confessed” in jail phone call to wife, court docs say.

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Supreme Court does away with race-based college admissions

In two decisions along ideological lines, the Supreme Court has ruled that using race as a factor in college admissions is a violation of the “equal protection clause” of the 14th Amendment. The Court ruled that race could no longer be one of the many factors that colleges weigh in admissions, in order to create a more diverse student body. However, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his opinion, “nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant’s discussion of how race affected his or her life, be it through discrimination, inspiration, or otherwise”. This means that colleges can only consider race if it has played a role in a student’s life, as narrated through their admissions essays. 

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Delphi murders suspect “confessed” in jail phone call to wife, court docs say

Richard Allen is accused of murdering teenagers Abigail Williams, 13, and Liberty German, 14, in Delphi, Indiana, in Feb. 2017. He was arrested last fall after a years long investigation and is awaiting trial. Just yesterday, the judge has allowed documents previously protected by a gag order to become public for the first time.

One of the documents details a recorded jail phone call between Allen and his wife Kathy. During the phone call, Allen apparently confesses multiple times to murdering Williams and German. Kathy ends the call abruptly.

Allen’s defense team are claiming these were not true confessions, but merely a symptom of Allen’s deteriorating health and mental state while incarcerated. Allen’s attorneys have alleged that Allen has suffered harsher conditions and mistreatment in jail. Guards and administrators at the jail where Allen is housed say that the restrictions on Allen’s movements in the jail are for his protection. Jail staff believe that Allen could be a target for violence from other inmates due to the notoriety of the case and because the victims were children.

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