The Latest Breaking News from SFFA

[I have updated and basically rewritten the post in light of new information that allows me to explain matters much more clearly, I think.] This year's entering class is the first since admissions decisions were constrained by the Supreme Court's ban on racial preferences in the SFFA case, and lots…

‘The class is, as always, outstanding across multiple dimensions,’ MIT president said

[I'm reposting this because the linked article disappeared from SSRN's website soon after I posted it, until a copyright permission issue was resolved.] My article, Students for Fair Admissions and the End of Racial Classification as We Know It, has been published in the new Cato Supreme Court Review. Here…

OK, she said it in 2006 as a dean, not a Justice, and about women and law review membership at Harvard, not SFFA and minority admissions, but I would be interested in knowing why she has expressed this concern about women, but not URMs. Relatedly, my former colleague (now DC…

In the SFFA affirmative action case, Chief Justice Roberts for the majority, Justice Thomas, concurring, and especially Justice Gorsuch, concurring, argued that in addition to other legal defects in the defendants' affirmative action programs, the classifications used they used for "diversity" purposes were not properly tailored to serve the schools'…

The importance of the trial records in Students for Fair Admissions and 303 Creative

I've known Michael Rosman at the Center for Individual Rights for almost 30 years; he has litigated many important cases, including with regard to racial preferences, and was one of the lawyers in Grutter v. Bollinger. I'm therefore delighted to pass along his short reactions to Students for Fair Admission…

Edward Blum’s group used Asian Americans for display to serve a longstanding anti-affirmative action agenda

No other public universities use race as a factor, but Texas private schools like Rice and Southern Methodist University will be impacted.