admin: FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN ET AL. No. 14–981. Argued December 9, 2015—Decided June 23, 2016 http://www.zzwave.com/zzw/upload/up/1/686bfc0.pdf
admin: Dangerous Implications of today’s Supreme Court ruling upholding racial preferences at the University of Texas https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/06/23/dangerous-implications-of-todays-supreme-court-ruling-upholding-racial-preferences-at-the-university-of-texas/ (6-24 10:23)
admin: Justice Kennedy also ignored the University’s failure to provide a coherent explanation for why they extended preferences to some groups, but not others who were less numerous in the student body to begin with. This omission is particularly glaring in the case of Asian-Americans, who end up getting disfavored by the UT policy. As Justice Alito puts it:'While both the majority and the Fifth Circuit rely on UT’s classroom study… they completely ignore its finding that Hispanics are better represented than Asian-Americans in UT class¬ rooms. In fact, they act almost as if Asian-American students do not exist…." The treatment of Asian-Americans in the UT policy (and similar policies at other universities) should be an embarrassment to defenders of these programs, because Asian-American groups both make a major contribution to “diversity” and have often been victims of state-sponsored oppression throughout much of American history. From a “diversity” standpoint, it also makes little sense to treat, say, Italians, Russian immigrants, and WASPs, as an undifferentiated mass of “whites.” (6-24 10:46)