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Supporters of racial preferences have a new argument why the University of Michigan should be permitted to maintain a discriminatory admissions policy -- it's necessary to win the war on terror. At least that's the implication of a military brief supporting Michigan's policy by Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and other military luminaries arguing that without racial quotas the U.S. military would collapse like the French in May 1940. The military brief is a boon to quota supporters, who can now claim that their race consciousness isn't a starry-eyed liberal obsession but a hardheaded imperative essential to the national defense. But the...

Remarks by the President on the Michigan Affirmative Action Case The Roosevelt Room 4:30 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. The Supreme Court will soon hear arguments in a case about admission policies and student diversity in public universities. I strongly support diversity of all kinds, including racial diversity in higher education. But the method used by the University of Michigan to achieve this important goal is fundamentally flawed. At their core, the Michigan policies amount to a quota system that unfairly rewards or penalizes perspective students, based solely on their race. So, tomorrow my administration will file a brief...