White House Brief Stops Short of Bush Speech (Folks, I really don't relish the next words)RUSH

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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.

Now, the mainstream press, of course, is late to pick up on this. We have several wire reports, which I read on Friday's program that lead with lines like, "President Bush is siding with white students in the most sweeping affirmative action case…" And they don't think they're biased? President Bush is siding with white students? No, President Bush is siding with the Constitution. It's the Fourteenth Amendment, which is being largely ignored by those in the mainstream press. He's siding with the Constitution, not siding with white students or white people or white anybody.

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.

Here is the upshot: The president's compelling speech certainly suggested he was taking on the whole issue of race-based preferences. This is why everybody was so excited. This is why you want a conservative in the White House, to stop a mess like affirmative action. It pits groups of people against each other and it stigmatizes people who benefit from it. There's nothing positive about it. The president's opponents predictably in their criticism certainly suggested that he was taking on the issue of race-based preferences.

After hearing the president speak, and from that reaction from the left, the press, pundits and all the rest of us concluded that Bush was challenging racial preferences in college admissions. But his administration's brief - I'm sorry to say, folks - doesn't do that.

Listen to Rush...

(…compare media reports of the president's position, with the actual brief) (…continue the legal analysis of the brief filed by the White House)

Read the Articles...

(AP: Bush Brief on Affirmative Action Due) (USA Today: White House to oppose Michigan policy of race-based admissions) (Reuters: Bush Lawyers Urge Top Court to Back White Students)

Read the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution...

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" Even if it is limited to Michigan, what happens is other judges will look at how SCOTUS decided it - reversals make judges look bad, you see - and as such, they will make their calls based on the ruling."

So,if I am reading you right- (assuming they rule against the U of M) it will take lawsuit after lawsuit,against individual universities that use race as a preferential consideration, to universally end the practice. The SCOTUS won't issue a blanket condemnation against all racial preferences, in one ruling.But,there will now be legal precedent for future cases.And if that is the outcome of this case-wouldn't most universities start to think twice about using race as an admissions factor, to avoid costly lawsuits?

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I told you he would fold. Don't pay any attention to what Bush says. Pay attention to what he does. The wimp factor will always be in play. He's not a conservative. He advances the Democrats most liberal agenda. The rule of law means nothing to him. He does have one big legacy greater than any other president. His affirmitive action down payment program should really draw in the votes. He's the king of mush.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/824514/posts?page=226#226

225 posted on 01/18/2003 1:32 AM EST by Uncle Bill


Oh well you all can live in a dream world Bush is no conservative! Rush was right in 1999 and last year and now with this brief it proves it!


Like Ann said Bush is a Clinton! Sad day in America isn't it?

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[Ben Ficklin]

This article is about the ABC Nightly News segment on the 15th in which Terry Moron is describing Bush as "punting" on the "big legal question". After the segment, Jennings emphasized the same fact.

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