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Some Thoughts On The Texas Gerrymandering Case

There is so much to say about LULAC v. Abbott, the recent gerrymandering case decided by a three judge panel… The post Some Thoughts On The Texas Gerrymandering Case appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Nov 23, 2025

A Lawyer Who Litigated Grutter v. Bollinger Comments on the Court's Recent Case on Discrimination Against Majority Groups

I've known Michael Rosman at the Center for Individual Rights for 30 years; he has litigated many important cases, including with regard… The post A Lawyer Who Litigated Grutter v. Bollinger Comments on the Court's Recent Case on Discrimination Against Majority Groups appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Jun 11, 2025

Expressive Discrimination: Universities' First Amendment Right to Affirmative Action — Part 2

Continuing my serial blogging on whether private universities can use a Boy Scouts expressive association theory to have race-based affirmative action.

Reason · Mar 3, 2025

Sandra Day O'Connor, RIP

She was the first woman Supreme Court justice, and played a key role in changing the Court's jurisprudence for the better on several issues.

Reason · Dec 1, 2023

"Judges Have Long Deferred to Academe. That's Changing."

A very interesting article by Prof. Steve Sanders (Indiana), who is also an Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a scholar of sexual orientation and the law; it's in the Chronicle of Higher Education, but also available without the need for registration here. An excerpt: During the Red Scare of…

Reason · Nov 7, 2023

Teaching Notes on Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard

Michael Stokes Paulsen, Michael McConnell, Sam Bray, and I recently completed and posted the 2023 online supplement to our constitutional law casebook: The Constitution of the United States. (I shilled for the book earlier on this blog -- at the start of the Trump administration -- as "A new constitutional…

Reason · Sep 7, 2023

How Affirmative Action Lost at the Supreme Court

Preferential college admissions violated the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Reason · Sep 7, 2023

Commentary: Affirmative action is banned — except at military academies? Why that won’t help students

With a conservative majority on the bench, the recent Supreme Court ruling to strike down affirmative action was widely expected. One unexpected twist, however, was an inconspicuous footnote exempting military academies from the drastic change.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 18, 2023

Say Farewell To The "Diversity Benefits" Rationale For Affirmative Action

The majority and dissent state the quiet part out loud: affirmative action was never about the educational benefits from diversity.

Reason · Jul 4, 2023

A Lawyer Who Litigated Grutter Comments on the Court's College Admission Racial Preferences Cases

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…

Reason · Jul 3, 2023