President Bush Speaks Out Against Racial Quotas

[Sergeant Bob]

Bush Administration Dubs Affirmative Action Process 'Plainly Unconstitutional'

Friday, January 17, 2003

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration told the Supreme Court on Thursday that university admissions programs that gave an edge to minority students are unconstitutional and ignore race-neutral alternatives that could boost minority presence on campuses.

The administration urged the high court to strike down admissions policies at the University of Michigan and its law school.

The admissions policies amount to unconstitutional quota systems and unfairly discriminate against white students, the administration argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the lawsuit challenging the Michigan school's practices.

Solicitor General Theodore Olson wrote: "The court should hold that the university's race- and ethnic-based undergraduate admissions policies are unconstitutional because proven race-neutral alternatives to achieving the laudable goals of educational openness and diversity remain available."

Both admissions policies fail the constitutional test of equal protection for everyone under the law and cannot be reconciled with previous Supreme Court rulings that severely limit the use of race as a factor in government decisions, Olson wrote.

The guys got a pair! It's about time someone did something about this institutional racism.

 

[TheeBadOne]

Looking good

 

[Griff]

Nice to see the rules applying to everyone, if only in spirit. This is the common-sense kind of thing that I voted for.

 

[KMKeller]

Unfortunately, they're going to have a hard time establishing a weighted point-scale scenario as a quota system. The supreme court has ruled that the University's point-scale system does not violate federal law and it's an uphill climb to prove it does. My opinion? If a person of any creed or color starts out 20 points ahead on the scale based on their creed or color, then it's racism. According to the scale the university currently has in place, the next heaviest weighting is 14 points for perfect SATs, placing race more important than any academic achievements...