PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Thursday June 23, 2016
CONTACT: Roger Clegg
(703) 442-0066
The Disappointing Decision in Fisher v. University of Texas
CEO Weighs in on SCOTUS’s Affirmative Action Decision
(Falls Church, VA)Linda Chavez, chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), said today: “We are disappointed in today’s decision, which upholds the use of racial preferences in student admissions at the University of Texas. Such discrimination is untenable in our increasingly multiracial, multiethnic society – indeed, a society where individual Americans are more and more likely to be multiracial and multiethnic, and where the victims of this politically correct discrimination are more and more likely to be members of racial and ethnic minority groups.”
Roger Clegg, president of the Center for Equal Opportunity, said: “Today’s decision is a narrow one, and leaves plenty of room for future challenges to racial preference policies at other schools. Those challenges will continue, and the Center for Equal Opportunity looks forward to participating in those challenges – and ensuring that the public is aware of the extent and severity of the discrimination.”
The Center for Equal Opportunity has been involved in this case for years, joining and helping write multiple briefs before the Supreme Court and the court of appeals. Those briefs emphasized the many studies that CEO has done over the years, documenting the heavy weight schools give to race and ethnicity in their admissions. Even before the litigation began, CEO filed a complaint against the University of Texas with the U.S. Department of Education, challenging the discriminatory admissions policy that the school uses.
The Center for Equal Opportunity is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization that studies issues relating to race and ethnicity nationwide.
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