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...race or sex should be irrelevant when you decide whether to vote for him or her as President is a respectable, even inspiring one. It would be the view of the majority on the current Supreme Court. In its big ruling on school desegregation last month, Parents Involved v. Seattle, the Justices forbade school districts to use race to assign students to schools--even for the purpose of desegregation. Chief Justice John Roberts quoted many of the Court's golden oldies on this point, like this from a 2000 case: "It demeans the dignity and worth of a person...
...v: To reduce a criminal penalty...
Cromwell Professor of Law Mark V. Tushnet ’67, who is also regarded as a leading figure in the CLS movement, said in an interview that Unger was a “central” figure in developing the movement’s theory, and that “very early on he...described a number of important aspects of Critical Legal Studies and captured in very important ways what the enterprise was about...
...Justice Stephen Breyer led Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent, arguing that the districts' use of race served their powerful interest in making sure that students reaped the benefits of learning in racially diverse classrooms. And what about Brown v. Board of Education, Breyer asked incredulously? The 1954 school-desegregation landmark promised "true racial equality," he wrote, and today's plurality decision "would break that promise...
...pessimistic. Kennedy's concurrence suggests that schools might figure out an acceptable way to use race in assigning students, and there are apparently five firm votes on this court for allowing race as a factor in creating good public schools. What's more, the decision did not overrule Grutter v. Bollinger, the court's 2003 decision upholding the University of Michigan law school's admissions policy of considering race because students learn better in diverse classrooms...