[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Besides, with O'Connor still on the court we weren't in a position to close the deal on the end of affirmative action quotas. Now there is a lively hope that SCOTUS could declare that, what with "Affirmative Action" favoring people who look more like the the POTUS at the expense of those who look less like the sitting president, quotas are passe'.

And that the future end of quotas, foreshadowed by Sandra Day O'Connor in her last major affirmative action opinion, is now.

[TomOnTheRun]

Quotas will end when opposition to them does. Perverse? Yes. But it would be in keeping with other bits and bobs of civil rights legislation through the years.