Overview
Two pieces from ScotusBlog discussing what the Supreme Court needs to do in the area of racial preferences, etc.
- http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/02/ending-racial-preferences/
- http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/08/the-court-after-scalia-what-a-conservative-successor-to-justice-scalia-would-mean-for-affirmative-action/
Education
Racial preferences in higher education:
These pieces discuss both why “diversity” should not be a “compelling interest” — and how the Court’s acceptance of it still leaves challenges to racial preferences quite possible.
- https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/24/supreme-court-ruling-fisher-while-disappointing-narrow-one-essay
- http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/09/online-fisher-symposium-no-compelling-interest-no-reason-not-to-say-so/
- http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/09/symposium-getting-serious-about-racial-discrimination/
- http://www.findlawimages.com/efile/supreme/briefs/02-241/02-241.mer.ami.ceo.pdf (CEO amicus brief in Grutter/Gratz)
Race-based assignments in K-12 education:
Ending school desegregation decrees:
- https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/osg/briefs/1990/01/01/sg900145.txt (DOJ amicus brief in last Supreme Court case to address this issue)
(law review article by a former colleague)
Employment
- https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/10/lawsuits-wanted-roger-clegg/
- https://ceousa.org/attachments/article/1116/George%20W%20Bush%20Retrospective%202009.pdf (see part III)
- https://www.nas.org/articles/A_Half-Dozen_Push-Backs_for_Faculty_Hiring_Committee_Meetings (faculty issues in particular)
- https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/meetings/archive/2-28-07/clegg2.html (main part of EEOC testimony)
- https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/meetings/archive/2-28-07/clegg1.html (supplement to above)
- CEO amicus brief in Piscataway Township Board of Education v. Taxman
https://ceousa.org/attachments/article/1294/Briefing-CEOUSA.pdf
Contracting
Voting Rights
- Voting Rights Act:
- http://www.heritage.org/election-integrity/report/disparate-impact-and-section-2-the-voting-rights-act (importance of limiting any “disparate impact” use of Section 2)
- https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/lets-keep-the-voting-rights-act-focused-on-actual-racial-discrimination (why attempts to resurrect Section 5 should be resisted)
- Felon Voting:
- http://www.heritage.org/crime-and-justice/report/felon-voting-and-unconstitutional-congressional-overreach (constitutional and policy objections to Congress limiting felon disenfranchisement; the policy objections apply to the states, too)
- https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/legacy_files/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Clegg100316.pdf
- Redistricting:
Disparate Impact
- https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/supreme-court-review/2015/9/2015-supreme-court-review-chapter-6.pdf (discusses problems with the disparate-impact approach, with the recent Supreme Court fair housing decision as the backdrop)
- http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Briefly-Disparate-Impact.pdf (broader paper; dated on some of the legal points but still valid on policy points)
- https://ceousa.org/attachments/article/836/bilingual.comment.pdf (formal rulemakng comment explaining why it is ultra vires for a Title VI regulation to use the disparate-impact approach)
Legislation
- http://www.heritage.org/civil-rights/report/what-congress-can-do-stop-racial-discrimination (for Congress)
- http://www.heritage.org/civil-rights/report/what-states-can-do-stop-racial-discrimination (for states)
Related posts:
The Center for Equal Opportunity on “Disparate Impact” at Cato 
TESTIMONY OF ROGER CLEGG, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL COUNSEL, CENTER FOR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BEFORE THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS REGARDING THE PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT NON-DISCRIMINATION ACT
Disparate Impact Delenda EstThe Right Way to Interpret the Voting Rights Act