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Full Title: Unprecedented Removal of Register of Copyrights Causes Consternation in Copyright Community Maria Pallante, the Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office, submitted her resignation today, after being abruptly removed and transferred from office last Friday by Dr. Carla Hayden, the new Librarian of Congress, who was sworn in just weeks ago. According to a statement issued by the Library of Congress, Hayden transferred Pallante to a newly created non-managerial position within the Library, Senior Advisor for Digital Strategy. Karyn Temple Claggett, an Associate Register, was appointed Acting Register of Copyrights, effective immediately. We are...

You can smell it in the air. A deep sense of betrayal among Democratic voters. An underlying realization that the Democratic party’s politburo — Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, Jeffries, and their courtiers of elected official and consultant sycophants — sold voters a bill of goods: the gaslighting of the public on President Biden’s decrepitude; the false idol of the Kamala Harris “campaign of joy” as a smart last-minute stand-in; and the repeated cowering to the far left whose wokeness and moral condescension turns off most voters. In a just world, one might expect a formal no-confidence vote on this leadership failure....

An historic ballot proposition passed by California voters in 1996 to end race-based admissions to the University of California may have led to more blacks being admitted to UC. “At present, by a wide range of metrics—including relative to state population share and changes in toal UC enrollment—black and Hispanic enrollments are higher than before Proposition 209,” Stuart Taylor, Jr. and Richard Sander write in an amicus brief they filed in a U. S. Supreme Court case. “UC black enrollment had returned to pre-209 levels by 2002 and averaged some 40% above pre-209 levels by 2007.” They filed a brief...

<p>It sold just three cookies, but a unique bake sale Wednesday at Indiana University turned up the heat in an ongoing debate about affirmative action.</p> <p>Modeled after similar events on campuses across the country, the sale offered cookies at different prices based on customers' race and gender. White males were charged $1; white females, Asians and Pacific Islanders, 75 cents; American Indians and Hispanics, 50 cents; and blacks, 25 cents.</p>

September Affirmative Action Panel at U-M Reveals First Amendment Problems with "New" Policy in Wake of Grutter and Gratz Decisions. Essays must be "risky but not too risky," scientist intentionally witheld contrary regression data. by Chetly Zarko On September 17, 2003 a public panel discussion was convened by the University of Michigan administration. The panel participants, all University administrators or researchers who have taken public positions in favor of race preferences. They made various statements that call into question the real nature of change, first amendment questions related to the weighting of the new essays, and previous statements by the...

July 20th On July 9, 2003, Ward Connerly--founder and director of the American Civil Rights Institute and the driving force behind California's abandonment of race-based college admissions--received the following letter from Congressman John D. Dingell of Michigan. Mr. Connerly has asked that Rep. Dingell's letter, which is currently posted at the congressman's website, be given wide publicity, along with Mr. Connerly's response. Since 1993, Mr. Connerly has been a member of the University of California Board of Regents and is credited with ending race-based admissions at UC. He also led California's successful Civil Rights Initiative (Proposition 209) in 1996. His...

<p>Yogi Berra, the renowned philosopher, once famously said: "When you reach a fork in the road — take it." I hope the United States Supreme Court does not take his ambivalent advice. The two pending cases concerning the admissions policies of the University of Michigan give the court an opportunity to speak clearly on America's problem with race.</p>

<p>Yesterday's stunning announcement that the Supreme Court will review two cases involving racial preferences at the University of Michigan strongly suggests that our long national coverup is nearly over. The education establishment may finally be forced to confront the real race problem--a national school system that is failing those at the bottom rung of the ladder.</p>

California’s Quota Commandoes Are Still Winning Victories By Harold Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | October 17, 2002 What a difference six years doesn’t make. As the November elections approached in 1996, a fierce fight raged over the "California Civil Rights Initiative" – Proposition 209 – a ballot initiative to forbid race preferences in state and local government. Six autumns later, the fight to implement Prop. 209's vision of fairness and equal treatment goes on. However, the battle has shifted to the courtroom, as the measure’s supporters try to get public officials to obey the law. In some parts of the Golden State...

Time running out for Prop. 209 scofflaws By Harold Johnson A high schooler asks to transfer to a different school in the same school district. "No," comes the reply from administrators. "You're the wrong color." Couldn't happen in California, right? Not in the state whose constitution includes Proposition 209, expressly barring race discrimination in public education, contracting and hiring? Wrong. Doing people wrong because of their color remains the rule in several major California school districts -- nearly six years after Proposition 209's enactment. In the name of "racial balance," these districts -- in Los Angeles County, the Bay Area...