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I'm glad to see that Jeb has joined the battle. It would be smart for him to take most of the political heat right now, and let W. and SCOTUS work beneath the radar.

Some have said that the White House brief does not go far enough, does not match his speech, but I disagree.

By filing an amicus brief that only attacks the UM policy, but not the ENTIREITY of Affirmative Action, W. shows the court a middle ground where they can rule without drawing heavy political fire. When SCOTUS rules against the UM policy only, and not against AA, critics in the media will report how this wasn't really a win for W., and that it was a narrow ruling. Shallow thinkers like Terry Moran will deride Bush for punting.

But then comes the payoff...EVERY case that comes down the pike from here on out will reference the UM decision as PRECEDENT. Effectively, with the UM case as precedent, SCOTUS WILL have ended race-based preferences at all universities without allowing Big Race to accuse him of attacking or ending Affirmative Action.

Great tactic for those who think it through...even though the subtlety is lost on those who are unable to see the big picture.

FReegards...

It would be smart for him to take most of the political heat right now

Here in FL, I don't think Gov Bush will need to worry about any political heat - he took a lot of heat when this first happened, back in 2000.

But, over the years, here is what else has happened: More outreach has been done by FL colleges and universities. More AP courses are now offered in public high schools in black neighborhoods, and that was thanks to funding by Gov Bush. More teachers are trained to teach those AP courses. ALL students in FL (INCLUDING BLACKS) take the PSAT for FREE -- thanks to Gov Bush and funding by FL -- so they can discover where they need to improve before taking the SATs. In short, more and more was done by Gov Bush, to insure ALL students receive a BETTER education.

That has made the difference. Not "race."

And what do voters think of all this? They approve.

BTW, any heat over One FL would certainly have shown up in the recent FL gov race results. And, while the Dem Party Leaders thought they could make a big fire out of One FL, they failed.

They failed, IMO, because they kept missing the real facts about Gov Bush and education here in FL, including the facts I wrote about in my editorial series during that race,
as in this article: How Jeb Inspired Blacks to March as One Florida.

FYI --

FLORIDA GOVERNOR SIGNS HISTORIC BILL TO RE-ESTABLISH FAMU'S COLLEGE OF LAW

Surrounded by lawmakers and Florida A&M University President Frederick S. Humphries, Florida Governor Jeb Bush (seated in the center) signs the bill to re-establish the Florida A&M University College of Law.

From FL A& M University's College of Law -- a school restored by Gov Bush: CLICK HERE.

FLORIDA GOVERNOR SIGNS HISTORIC BILL TO RE-ESTABLISH FAMU'S COLLEGE OF LAW

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — More than three decades after closing its doors, Florida A&M University's College of Law was officially resurrected in less than a minute with the stroke of a pen by Florida Governor Jeb Bush on June 14.

Calling the move "the right thing to do" onlookers in the standing-room only Foster-Tanner Band Rehearsal Hall, applauded and cheered as the governor commented on the historic bill signing.

"I'm here with joy in my heart to right a wrong that happened a long time ago," Bush said. "We're also embracing diversity in the right way."

...FAMU's College of law was created in 1951, but was dismantled because of lack of funding in 1965 and graduated its last class in 1968. Between 1954 and 1968 FAMU's College of Law produced 57 graduates....

You are spot-on copycat. This is a precedent-setting tactic that will ensure that, presuming the USSC rules against the Univ. of Michigan, further assaults against AA will have a ruling to use as a pretext (not just the Bakke case).

I admit I don't know enough about the case to know if it's fate will match the case that cropped up a couple years ago. That was the case where two teachers, one black and one white, went to the same university, got the same level of education, and had the same level of work experience but the black teacher got the job. This was one of those cases that highlighted an honest tipping of the scale, tiebreaker if you will. Still the fact was one was given preference over the other due to the color of their skin. It would have been a classic case for the USSC to review but a few months before it got there, the NAACP and some other race hustlers paid off the white plaintiff and that was the end of that.

I thought it was brilliant for President Bush to announce this brief a few days before MLK day, a day that should be called civil rights day so that it could correctly honor the bravery of people of all colors in defeating defacto institutional discrimination in the EARLY sixties. Legal vagaries aside, his speech fired the debate, shaped the debates parameters, and asked the so-called civil rights industry to look themselves in the mirror. Not gonna happen but still stuck on ein their craw.