(US Supreme) Court Reviews Race as Factor in School Plans

The New York Times ^ | December 4, 2006 | Linda Greenhouse

[Zakeet]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — By the time the Supreme Court finished hearing arguments on Monday on the student-assignment plans that two urban school systems use to maintain racial integration, the only question was how far the court would go in ruling such plans unconstitutional.

[Snip]

Before the arguments on Monday, the challenge for the school board lawyers defending the plans, along with their allies in the civil rights community, had appeared to be to persuade the justices that the appropriate analogy was not to affirmative action, a freighted subject for the court in which benefits are bestowed on one group and withheld from another, but rather to integration, in which the goal is to educate everyone as equally as possible.

But by the end of the tense two hours of argument, that effort had not so much failed as it had become irrelevant. Lawyers for the school systems found themselves struggling, under the justices’ questioning, to meet the even more basic challenge of explaining why the plans should be seen as something different from the intentional segregation that the court struck down in Brown v. Board of Education.

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As the arguments proceeded, the court’s more liberal members appeared increasingly and visibly dispirited.

[Zakeet]

This article from the NY Times summarizes yesterday's arguments at the US Supreme Court concerning racial preferences in public schools.

The liberals are apparently beginning to light candles for an impending wake.

The story is worth a read.

[oceanview]

our side will get a 5-4 win in this one.

[Lexington Green]

A race-based double-standard IS racism.

[ozoneliar]

Gotta love this reporting:

As the arguments proceeded, the court’s more liberal members appeared increasingly and visibly dispirited

The Eviiil conservatives are crushing the spirits of the Libs.

[oceanview]

Roberts dream of having less divided votes - isn't going to happen.

[traditional1]

"the only question was how far the court would go in ruling such plans unconstitutional."

There's no question in my mind that they won't go far ENOUGH for sure.

There's gonna be massive MSM coverage of rioting in the streets when Affirmative Action is struck down....

[sarasmom]

I sure wish this court had been "sitting" when my own K-12 public school education in 1970 something, was seriously disrupted to attempt to achieve "racial equality in education".

There is one very severe beating I personally suffered, in abiding by court directed racial school desegredration that taught me just the opposite of the "lofty ideals" they proclaimed would be the final result of importing strange kids who did not live in my neighborhood to my local school.

Now that Caucasian children are a minority in many public schools, does that mean my child will be "forcibly bussed" too a school where she will be in the majority?

[PEACE ENFORCER]

Looks like FACTS are becoming more relevant.....to a liberal this is blasphemy