Brnovich Amicus Brief

Roger CleggDocuments, Voting Rights

The Center for Equal Opportunity recently joined and helped write amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to grant review in two cases involving voting rights.  In each we opposed court of appeals decisions that required state and local jurisdictions to engage in politically correct race-based decisionmaking in their voting laws and practices. Brnovich Amicus Brief In addition, in one of these cases, CEO board member and former president and general counsel Roger Clegg had this amicus brief filed on his behalf and others’ in their capacity as former officials of the U.S. Department of Justice’s civil rights division: https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/19-1257-Amicus-Brief.pdf Related …

Higginson v. Becerra amicus brief

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Higginson v. Becerra amicus brief Related posts: CEO Files Amicus Brief in Donor-Disclosure Case Brnovich Amicus Brief Our Amicus Brief in a Felon Voting Case Amicus Brief: Adarand v. Mineta

SFFA v. Harvard amicus brief

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SFFA v. Harvard amicus brief Related posts: Waiting for the ‘Termination Point’ The Latest Affirmative Action Suit May Succeed Where Others Failed Good Briefs in the Harvard Case Investigating Discrimination at Harvard

Edits on the EO 11,246 Regulations

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These are the edits on the EO 11,246 regulations mentioned in Roger Clegg, “Unfinished Business: The Bush Administration and Racial Preferences”, 32 Harv.J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 971,989 (2009) (discussed in Part III.B., “The Bush Administration, Executive Order 11246’s Regulations, and the Law”). This law review article is posted on CEO’s website:  http://ceousa.org/attachments/article/1116/George%20W%20Bush%20Retrospective%202009.pdf  Related posts: Bad Old Regulations Suggested Reading on Civil Rights Issues 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 Illegal Labor Department Affirmative-Action Regulations

Racial Discrimination at Virginia Universities

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STUDY FINDS PREFERENCES IN ADMISSIONS AT FIVE VIRGINIA SCHOOLS Washington, DC, September, 2019 – A new study on the use of racial and ethnic preferences released today by the Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) finds discrimination in admissions at five Virginia public universities: the University of Virginia, William & Mary, James Madison University, Virginia Tech, and George Mason University. CEO uncovered a significant amount of discrimination, particularly at the University of Virginia and William & Mary. Since its founding in 1995, CEO has obtained data from schools through state freedom-of-information laws, analyzed what we found, and released dozens of such …

Preferences in Virginia Higher Education 2019

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Preferences in Virginia Higher Education Related posts: The Felon Vote Preferences in Virginia Higher Education Racial Discrimination at Virginia Universities Minority Access to Higher Education

Stuart Taylor, Jr.

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Of Counsel and Senior Fellow Stuart Taylor, Jr. is an author and freelance journalist focusing on legal and policy issues including unfairness and excessive punishment in the criminal justice system.  He has coauthored three critically acclaimed books and has written since 1980 for leading publications includingThe New York Times, American Lawyer Media, National Journal, Newsweek, RealClearPolitics, and many other newspapers and magazines. He has been interviewed on all major broadcast networks and has won numerous journalism honors. In 2017, KC Johnson and Taylor wrote The Campus Rape Frenzy: The Attack on Due Process at America’s Universities. In 2012, Richard Sander and Taylor wrote Mismatch: How …

Dr. Althea Nagai

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Senior Research Fellow In D.C. area for over 20 years, Althea Nagai, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity. She has conducted numerous statistical analyses on racial and ethnic preferences in higher education, including racial and ethnic preferences in undergraduate education at five public universities in Virginia, the University of Michigan, two Arizona universities, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two Ohio universities, and various law and medical schools. In addition, she has written two essays for CEO focusing on Asian Americans, “Too Many Asian Americans,” and “Harvard Investigates Harvard.” She has also has done work on other …

Suggested Reading on Civil Rights Issues

Roger CleggCurrent Events

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 …

Harvard Investigates Harvard

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“Does the admissions process discriminate against Asians?” A new study by the Center for Equal Opportunity finds new evidence of bias against Asian American applicants applying to Harvard (Falls Church, VA) Well before the Students for Fair Admissions sued Harvard for discrimination against Asian American applicants, the university’s Office of Institutional Research (OIR) looked into whether the school’s admissions process disadvantaged Asian Americans. The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) analyzes the OIR report data in a study released today: Harvard Investigates Harvard: Does the Admissions Process Disadvantage Asians? Dr. Althea Nagai, a research fellow at the Center for Equal Opportunity, …