Dear friends and supporters,
I am pleased to report to you that CEO joined a Supreme Court amicus brief filed yesterday by our friends at the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF).
The brief supports petitioners in the case of Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina in their challenge to the university’s use of racial preferences in admissions. The brief builds on the arguments made in a separate brief submitted by PLF, and joined by CEO, in the racial preferences case of SFFA v. Harvard. Our hope is that the Supreme Court will agree to hear these cases together and ultimately, overrule the Grutter (2003) decision that sanctioned the use of race as a factor in college admissions.
Both briefs make a compelling case that the evidence since Grutter was decided shows that the harms caused by racial preferences—including academic mismatch–outweigh any educational benefits that may flow from a diverse student body. This evidence, in addition to the fact that Grutter was wrongly decided the day it was released, provides a special justification for the Court to overrule its nearly twenty-year precedent of allowing racial discrimination. We are proud of the CEO studies cited by PLF in these briefs to establish this critical justification and encourage your review of them by following the links provided below.
The Center for Equal Opportunity is a research and education organization formed pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and devoted to issues of race and ethnicity. Its fundamental vision is straightforward: America has always been a multiethnic and multiracial nation, and it is becoming even more so. This makes it imperative that our national policies do not divide our people according to skin color and national origin. Rather, these policies should emphasize and nurture the principles that unify us. E pluribus unum: out of many, one. CEO supports colorblind policies and seeks to block the expansion of racial preferences in all areas. CEO has participated as amicus curiae in numerous cases relevant to the analysis of both the Harvard and UNC cases including Ricci v. DeStefano, 557 U.S. 557 (2009); Parents Involved, 551 U.S. 701; and Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003).
Supreme Court Amicus Briefs
CEO Studies Cited in Briefs
