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At 1 p.m. next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hold one hour of oral argument on the constitutionality of a state voter-approved measure to ban all use of race as a factor in admissions to public colleges.
Lawyers for Michigan, moving rapidly with a new case on the use of race in college admissions, have laid out a plan to get the Supreme Court to hear and decide the case in the current Term.
The Obama Administration urged the Supreme Court on Monday to uphold the University of Texas’s use of race in selecting its incoming class of students, arguing that the university needed to add that factor to assure that more minorities are enrolled.
Today’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision upholding the individual health insurance mandate is an extremely frustrating result for those of us who argued that the mandate is unconstitutional. One might even call it taxing.
Last week I interviewed David Stras, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School who clerked for Justice Thomas during October Term 2002. Professor Stras discusses the Justice’s relationship with his clerks, his jurisprudence, and his views about the Court’s decisions on race, both before and after he joined the Court.
The following essay by Gerald Torres, Bryant Smith chair of law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, is one of the final posts for our Race and the Supreme Court program.
The following essay was written for our Race and the Supreme Court program by John C. Brittain, a professor at the University of D.C. David A. Clarke School of Law.
The following essay for our Race and the Supreme Court program is by Debo P. Adegbile, the Director of Litigation at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Last term in Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. One v. Holder, he argued in defense of the federal preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a constitutional challenge before the Supreme Court.
The following is the latest edition to our Race and the Supreme Court program, an essay by Kareem Crayton, a professor of law and political science at the University of Southern California Law School.
The following essay for our Race and the Supreme Court program was written by Robert J. Cottrol, the Harold Paul Green Research Professor of Law and Professor of History and Sociology at the George Washington University.
The following essay was written for our Race and the Supreme Court event by Dawinder S. Sidhu, a founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative at Harvard University.
The following essay, part of our Race and the Supreme Court program, is by Gail Heriot, a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights and a professor of law at the University of San Diego.