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...percent a critical mass? Four percent? Eight percent? Does it stop being a quota because it [falls] between 8 and 12 percent? Once you use the term critical mass, you’re into quota-land,” Scalia said...
...Court know that when the Harvard plan was originally adopted, its purpose was to achieve diversity by reducing the number of Jewish students from New York that were getting into Harvard on the basis of merit alone?” Scalia asked...
...Scalia was referring to evidence that in the early 20th century, Harvard used a quota system to restrict the admission of Jewish students, according to Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who attended yesterday’s oral arguments. But Ogletree said that Scalia’s comment had little relevance to arguments today...
...stunned by the hostility of Scalia and [Chief Justice William H.] Rehnquist’s questioning,” Orfield said. “Even the lawyers for the plaintiffs weren’t as hostile as some of the Supreme Court justices...
...Court had found the program unconstitutional. While Fried’s was doubtless a well-intentioned attempt to defend what he saw as an attack on constitutionally-guaranteed property rights, his case, Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, endangered legal services for the poor. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the IOLTA program a “Robin Hood taking”—“taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia’s accusation is baseless...