This is not the first case of this nature before SCOTUS.
My point exactly, If this case is won, Next week there will be someone who was denied a job in a simular fashion use this case as precidence and it will forever live as "CASE LAW" until the SCOTUS reverses it. If we could only get these doom and gloom reversed binoculars off these critters we might see a change for the good
"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."
Slap me and call me "Sally".
The case being tried is about the admissions policy at Michigan, but if Bush and Olsen do not waste their breath, and the Court's time, being redundant, they have caved?
The challenge to the admissions policy is based on the fact tyhat the University uses racial quotas. How is it that arguing that the University using racial quotas in their admissions policies is unconstitutional, NOT translate into arguing that the use of racial quotas violates the Constitution?
I'm no lawyer, but even I know that when you are trying a man for murder, you don't make global statements about the state of society, and why people murder. You discuss the facts relevant to the case before the Courts.
Not only that, but if the admission practices of Michigan are found to be unconstitutional, it establishes precedents for each individual State to challenge Federally mandated racial quotas in their State University system.
Imagine that, Bush coming out in favor of States having the ability to challenge the Federal government on State issues.
What the hell does this Bush guy think we are supposed to be?
A Republic?