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GOP Support for No Child Left Behind Conflicts With Attacks on Sotomayor

By | 05.27.09 | 6:00 am

Conservatives looking to reintroduce affirmative action as a political hot topic are eagerly attacking Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor for her decision in a reverse discrimination case. But what many of these same conservatives aren’t mentioning this week is that they once overwhelmingly supported a race-based initiative that has become More…