Equality and Opportunity

We've all checked the boxes on race and ethnicity questionnaires, a staple of most government applications and surveys, and they have never made much sense. On ethnicity, they ask whether you are "Hispanic or Latino" or "Not-Hispanic or Latino," which is about as sensible a question as asking a mammal if it's a cat or not a cat. And the racial grou ...

Certificate of Need (CON) laws have long been a ball-and-chain around the ankle of South Carolina's healthcare industry. But thanks to the passing of new legislation, these regulatory shackles have been removed and competition will soon return to the healthcare market across the state. CON laws are essentially permission slips that prevent ne ...

The Supreme Court has ended affirmative action as we knew it with its decision in the Students for Fair Admissions cases against Harvard and the University of North Carolina. From now on, college admissions officers can no longer use an applicant's race to decide who gets in and who stays out. So, what now? A lawsuit involving an elite Virginia ...

The Supreme Court's joint ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. UNC is a huge win for racial equality. Both cases challenged the respective universities' admissions policies, which gave preferential treatment to some races over others. Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) argued this practice is inc ...

Eliminating race discrimination means eliminating all of it. So holds the Supreme Court in two consolidated cases handed down yesterday, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions v. North Carolina. Writing for a six-justice majority, Chief Justice John Roberts answered the simple question at the heart of these case ...

Universities take note — the Supreme Court will not tolerate the fanatical and wanton reliance on race that has become the norm in admissions. In Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court held that Harvard and North Carolina had gone too far with racial preferences in weighing student applicants. Too many ...

embedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3lLdLF-BI/embed The following is a transcript from Wai Wah Chin's speech at Pacific Legal Foundation's 50th anniversary gala. National Portrait Gallery, March 23, 2023. All our lives matter. But what matters in life? Let me speak about one life, that of Roald Hoffman. Roald was a Jewish boy in Poland during ...

Apparently, it wasn't enough for the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) to implement new rules in 2022 designed to cripple the fledgling craft brewery industry. After being sued by Clarksboro-based Death of the Fox Brewing Company, ABC now claims that its rules are unenforceable "guidance." But ABC's claims are contradicted by ...

Katie Chubb had an idea for a business. She noticed that hospitals in Augusta, Georgia, weren't meeting the demand for birthing services. So she founded Augusta Birthing Center, a nonprofit, freestanding birth center that could offer a better experience at a lower price. But when she applied for a license to operate, the existing hospitals proteste ...