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Author: Joshua Thompson     More on the case here. … ...

I stumbled upon this story while reading the Sacramento Bee this afternoon. It appears that African-American and Latino applications to the University of California system have increased (again) this past year. Even as a percentage of total applicants, African-American and Latino applications increased. In fact, the only racial group that has seen ...

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 … ...

Once again, the Supreme Court has refused to either grant or deny certiorari in 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 … ...

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy Professor Ilya Somin wonders whether Fisher may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for opponents of racial preferences. He argues: If the Supreme Court strikes down explicit race-based affirmative action, but endorses the ten percent plan and other similar ‘race-neutral’ subterfuges, we might end up with ...

I was fortunate to appear on Armstrong and Getty this morning.  You can listen to the podcast here.  In the first segment we talked about Fisher exclusively.  In the second segment we talked about a lot of different PLF cases including Sackett and Obamacare.  Here is the Reason TV video on the Sackett case that was … ...

Professor Somin has responded to my post criticizing his view of the Top Ten Percent Law. As I noted in my first post, Professor Somin and I generally agree on the problems with the diversity rationale, and, I imagine, we both favor a system where universities do not use race as an admissions criterion (either overtly … ...

As a University of Wisconsin alum, I am the first to point out that the Gophers have lost the Battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe 8 times in a row, or that their basketball team hasn’t had a winning record in the Big Ten since 2005.  But, my criticism of this editorial in the Minnesota Daily does not stem from … ...