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The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO) has filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court of the United States supporting petitioners in the case of Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board (the Board). The case involves a challenge to the racially discriminatory overhaul of the admissions practices at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. In urging the Court to take the case, CEO explained that the Board has a long and sordid history of manipulating admissions practices at the elite magnet high school for racial purposes. Specifically, to lower the number of high-achieving …

Devon Westhill and Jin Hee Lee talked about the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. This is part of a week long series looking at key 2022-23 Supreme Court cases. Related posts: Opening Statement of Devon Westhill House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Update on the Struggle against Universities’ Affirmative Discrimination Keeping up with CEO Good Briefs in the Harvard Case

Black patients will die struggling to find doctors, income inequality will worsen, and perhaps, the global temperature will rise from the steaming ears of affirmative action proponents. So long as people have vivid imaginations, society will continue to impose the soft bigotry of low expectations.  Reality is clear. No college applicant today was enslaved in America because of his race or lived under Jim Crow. Discrimination and racism are much less prevalent— and much more certain to be punished severely— than at affirmative action’s inception. Now was the right time to curtail the use of race in college admissions.  But …

Reproduced with permission. Published July 10, 2023. Copyright 2023 Bloomberg Industry Group 800-372-1033. For further use please visit https://www.bloombergindustry.com/copyright-and-usage-guidelines-copyright The US Supreme Court has ruled that Harvard University and University of North Carolina unconstitutionally discriminated against some of its applicants and in favor of others based on race. I was very likely one of the unwitting applicants caught up in this decades-long racial spoils system at UNC. And despite the Supreme Court’s historic and long overdue ruling, the bell can’t be unrung for those like me. As a civil rights lawyer, and Black Southerner interested in our grand American experiment, …

This op-ed originally appeared in RealClearEducation In the words of President Joe Biden, the Supreme Court has “effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions.” Affirmative action is the practice, as the Court described, that took race into account when evaluating applicants, benefiting members of certain races at the expense of others. Some have praised the Court’s decision and some have denounced it, but everyone, it seems, has an opinion. Ruth Wisse, for example, explains in an op-ed that Harvard, where she is professor emerita, is now set to have a faculty discussion on affirmative action for the first time in a quarter-century. Wisse asserts …

On the latest episode of Giving Ventures, host and DonorsTrust Vice President Peter Lipsett talks with three policy experts working to expand diversity of thought and equal opportunity for all. Those experts are Edward Blum, founder of Students for Fair Admissions; Devon Westhill, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity; and Kenny Xu, president and primary spokesperson for Color Us United. Race, Ethnicity ‘Shouldn’t Be a Factor’ in College Admissions The Supreme Court in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard recently ruled accepting and rejecting students based on the color of their skin is unconstitutional. The 6-3 …

This op-ed originally appeared in Townhall.com In her dissent from the ruling outlawing affirmative action in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson made a blunder. She parroted a debunked claim that the chance of survival of a high-risk black newborn nearly doubles if under the care of a black physician. I suppose we shouldn’t hold that against her since she gave us fair warning that she’s not a biologist. No, she’s just a simple Supreme Court Justice after all.  Conservative commentators are raking Jackson over the coals for the error. This is understandable when, as lawyer Ted Frank suggests, “[a] …

This article was first published on Law.com Almost immediately, selective colleges around the country responded to the Supreme Court’s  affirmative action ruling with expected disdain. But if they don’t comply, they could be in for a world  of hurt.  The president of Harvard and 17 other senior university officials signed a letter admitting that “for almost a decade, Harvard has vigorously defended an admissions system” that the Supreme Court explained took race into consideration at nearly every stage of the admissions process. Harvard explained it is committed to preserving what it calls its “essential values,” such as racial diversity. In …

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