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)