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Author: Joshua Thompson The Los Angeles Times published this excellent op-ed on the effects of Proposition 209 and PLF's lawsuit to defend its constitutionality.  Here's a snippet: In reality, despite the coalition's lawsuit, the principles that underlay Proposition 209 have proved themselves correct. The belief that minorities co ...

For the past two weeks we have been getting excited about the Supreme Court’s looming descicion on whether to grant certiorari in Fisher v. University of Texas.  We were expecting to learn that news today.  Alas, the Supreme Court neither granted nor denied Fisher today.  I am not into prognostications, but it’s safe to say … ...

Roger Clegg, President and General Counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has posted an article over at National Review Online titled “Questions for the Candidates.” In it he notes the questions he thinks we should be asking the current presidential candidates on race and affirmative action as well as supplying model answers. Here ...

Bloomberg today reports that the Office for Civil Rights, a subdivision of the U.S. Education Department, is investigating complaints that both Harvard and Princeton discriminate against Asian-American undergraduate admission applicants. The article states: Like Jews in the first half of the 20th century, who faced quotas at Harvard, Princeton, an ...

Today’s oral argument in BAMN v. Brown before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco presented a new challenge to California’s Proposition 209 (California Constitution Article I, Section 31), in which a group of minority plaintiffs are seeking to overturn Proposition 209 and reinstate racial preferences for university admi ...

Yesterday several of my colleagues and I attended a debate at the King School of Law at UC Davis, hosted by the Federalist Society, on the role of race preferences in education.  Taking the anti-preference side of the debate was Ward Connerly, former UC Regent, a prominent advocate for ending all government race preferences, and … ...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced this morning that it will review the case of Fisher v. University of Texas. … ...

After so much waiting, the Supreme Court has finally decided to take up Fisher v. University of Texas.  PLF has been involved in this case for three years now.  In this video, my beard doesn’t even have a hint of gray.  The case challenges the University of Texas’s decision to treat prospective students differently because … ...

In Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice O’Connor famously quipped that in 25 years (from 2003) “the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”  Eric Holder, Attorney General of the United States, disagrees: “The question is not when does it end, but when does it begin.”    The National Review Online has the ...