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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: https://www.nationalreview.com/2012/05/bad-guidance-racial-preferences-roger-clegg/ 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 …