GOV BUSH FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN U OF MICHIGAN PREFERENCE CASE [Jeb's Amicus Brief linked here]

www.myflorida.com ^ | Jan. 16, 2003 | State of FL

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Jeb Bush, FL's Favorite Governor

(BTW, according to a St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald poll,
67% of FL voters now approve of One FL,
Gov Bush's plan eliminating race-based admissions
to FL colleges and universities.)


GOVERNOR BUSH FILES AMICUS BRIEF IN UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PREFERENCE CASE

Thursday, January 16, 2003

TALLAHASSEE – Governor Jeb Bush today filed an amicus brief arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court should invalidate the University of Michigan’s race-based admissions policies.

The brief affirms Florida’s commitment to maintaining racially and ethnically diverse institutions of higher education, but argues that diversity can and should be attained through race-neutral means. The brief also informs the Supreme Court of Florida’s success, since the implementation of the One Florida Initiative, in maintaining diversity in the State University System without resorting to race-based preferences.

To view the Governor’s "Amicus Brief on Race-based Admission," please visit the following website:

CLICK HERE.


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FYI. Also, in other recent news --

University of Florida Attracts More National Achievement Scholars than any Other University in the Country -- December 26, 2002

Florida ranks No. 1 in the South in community college student retention and graduation rates -- Dec. 30, 2002

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FYI.

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FYI.

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FYI.

[TLBSHOW]

didn't Jeb use an executive order against AA?

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Yes, I believe you're correct, as One FL came about as an executive order.

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FYI -- Announcement of the One FL Initiative

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Can President Bush end AA with an executive order?

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I really don't know - where are the legal minds on this forum??? :)

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Thanks, Summer.

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FYI.

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the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...

Amendment XIV

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

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White House Brief Stops Short of Bush Speech

January 17, 2003

Folks, I really don't relish the next words, sentences, and paragraphs, which you will read on this page or hear from my mouth in the audio links below. There is some angst today in the conservative legal community over the University of Michigan case and the brief filed by the Bush administration late Thursday night near the midnight deadline, and how this brief differs in scope from the president's amazing speech.

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That being said, our legal advisors here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute have read the brief filed by the Bush administration. We've studied it, and this position is not nearly as sweeping as that taken in the president's speech. In short, he does support overturning the policy of Michigan, but stops there and goes no further. The administration's brief contends that the admissions policy at Michigan does violate the Constitution, but the brief does not say that the use of race violates the Constitution. And that's the key.

Race-based anything violates the Constitution. No such discrimination is allowed, but the brief doesn't attack that, it only attacks the specific admissions policy at the University of Michigan. The Constitution does not outlaw all forms of discrimination, but it does prohibit discrimination based on race, and in some cases it discriminates or prohibits discrimination based on gender and religion.

The brief does not challenge racial preferences in college admissions. It accepts, in fact, the fact that race-based diversity is a constitutionally proper goal. So in the brief, as opposed to the speech the president made, the administration is not opposed to the goal, but merely Michigan's practice by which it was achieved.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/824701/posts?page=215#215

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Well, I can only tell you this: Here in FL, race is no longer allowed, by FL law, to be a factor in college admissions. Period.

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Well, I can only tell you this: Here in FL, race is no longer allowed, by FL law, to be a factor in college admissions. Period.


BUMP

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And, I will just add this: I have noticed that all these talk shows debating the current U of Michigan case FAIL to ever mention HOW affirmative action would impact OTHER minorities, as here in FL, as I've mentioned before on this forum, we have well over 140 different minority students in just ONE urban school district. Now, is ONE group going to be the recipient of "affirmative action"? FL voters say NO MORE. ALL GROUPS -- ALL STUDENTS -- MUST MEET THE SAME STANDARDS. THE END.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bush bump...

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PS BY "140+" I mean: over 140 different native tongues are spoken by FL students in just one K-12 public school distreict. Over 140 different shades of skin color. How can any state say affirmative action is "fair" in light of this? br>
Will Michigan give affirmative action to ALL 140+ groups?

If so, well, then what? Whites become a minority who then are required to meet HIGHER standards than EVERY OTHER GROUP.

Like most teachers in FL, I teach white students, black students, Asian students, etc. THEY ALL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE. NOT JUST "SOME" STUDENTS. (And, many of these students have to ALSO learn to speak ENGLISH.)

Even in the most liberal college publications, some lioberal academics are very much aware of the changing demographics of this country -- and have concluded: affirmative action can no longer be implemented as it once was, with this wave of immigration which is GREATER now than at the turn of the 20th century.

Yet, this aspect of the debate is conveniently OMITTED from every talk show I have recently watched.

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PS BY "140+" I mean: over 140 different native tongues are spoken by FL students in just one K-12 public school distreict. Over 140 different shades of skin color. How can any state say affirmative action is "fair" in light of this? br>
Will Michigan give affirmative action to ALL 140+ groups?

If so, well, then what? Whites become a minority who then are required to meet HIGHER standards than EVERY OTHER GROUP.

Like most teachers in FL, I teach white students, black students, Asian students, etc. THEY ALL HAVE TO BE ABLE TO READ AND WRITE. NOT JUST "SOME" STUDENTS. (And, many of these students have to ALSO learn to speak ENGLISH.)

Even in the most liberal college publications, some liberal academics are very much aware of the changing demographics of this country -- and have concluded: affirmative action can no longer be implemented as it once was, with this wave of immigration which is GREATER now than at the turn of the 20th century.

Yet, this aspect of the debate is conveniently OMITTED from every talk show I have recently watched.