[Right Wing Professor]

As I've noted before, W.'s "10 percent" and Jeb's "20 percent" plans are the same old, tired racial-preference policies disguised under the slipcover of "compassionate conservatism." Jeb's "Talented 20" program, for example, guarantees state university admission to the top 20 percent of students in every Florida high school senior class.

Michelle Malkin

These are crappy policies, won't achieve racial quotas in many other states, reinforce housing segregation, and drag down standards. They are, however, race-neutral and IMHO therefore are not unconstitutional. The battle we're fighting here is to prevent schools from using race as an explicit parameter in deciding who to admit. The two briefs are squarely on our side in that battle. The trite nonsense about 'diversity' is irrelevant, and I'm confident that Antonin Scalia will have his usual cruel fun with it.

[hchutch]

I admit the policies are not perfect, but at the same time, I am not convinced that they are flawed. They set a standard - it is race-neutral, and quite frankly, Michelle Malkin's characterization is inaccurate.

[krodriguesdc]

I think many are in denial about this brief - especially the so called color blind repubs...

[fightinJAG]

Well done, Prof.

[fightinJAG]

"the trite nonsense about diversity"

Exactly! Sometimes Rush and others go off on a rant about stuff that a first-year political observer would know is just foo-foo political-eze, not a substantive statement or a definitive characterization.