[cynicom]

Each to their own, as a conservative, not a republican, to me Bush and friends are cowards.

[Howlin]

I'm sure you could be doing a much better job.

[Howlin]

BTW, just so you'll know, I'm proud to be a Republican.

[WOSG]

Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor.

I think the Justice Dept., should elucidate the right position - which is that quotas are indefensible and racial preferences are wrong.

If the Justice Dept. has arguments about AA that it should not include quotas, etc., they merely need to leak it and let some others present it to the USSC. It should not sway the court who presents the legal arguments, just the logic underlying them should be determinative.

The Croson decision and the Hopwood lower court decision already clear the way for better clarity from the court.
IOW, AA is in big heap trouble anyway and one Justice dept brief will hardly change the USSC decision much. So while I agree that the right thing is to submit a brief, the politically expedient path of stepping aside will not harm the cause or the case at all.