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Over the past year, advocates of racial preferences have suffered so many setbacks that racial preferences are becoming extinct. The first setback came last June in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin. In that case, the U.S. Supreme Court expressed deep skepticism about the University's attempt to racially balance its student body. The Court ...

There are many factors that college basketball coaches consider when making recruitment decisions.  These may include how well an athlete can shoot, dribble, pass, rebound, as well as how the athlete gets along with other players and coaches.  But if universities and coaches believe the results of a new study, they may also try to recruit on the ba ...

PLF continues to fight for Abigail Fisher's right -- and every student's right -- to be treated equally under the law.  We have previously blogged about our continued involvement in her case, and the University of Texas's non-stop efforts to continue discriminating against its students.  Yesterday, the Obama Administration weighed in with an amicus ...

When Abigail Fisher was not offered admission to the University of Texas at Austin she brought an Equal Protection challenge against the school for its use of race in the admissions process.  As readers of this blog know, PLF has been involved in the Fisher case for years, submitting briefs in the Fifth Circuit stage, the cert petition stage, and m ...

Over at PrawfsBlawg, Prof. Will Baude asks why the Supreme Court is taking so long to decide Fisher. As readers know, the case challenges the University of Texas' use of racial preferences in its admission process. PLF filed a brief in the case, and has blogged extensively on it. The case was argued at the beginning of the term, back in October. Si ...

Last week, The Economist's cover story argued against the continued use of race-based affirmative action in the United States.  The lead article is well worth your time and can be found here.  The article discusses the upcoming decision in Fisher as well as the recent grant in Schuette -- two cases that PLF has been leading for some time.   Here's ...

In October, when Fisher was being argued before the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia was concerned with how the University of Texas determined it had "enough" minorities in each classroom.  He asked, "how does the University determine when classrooms are diverse? ...  Do they go about, classroom by classroom, deciding how many minorities there are?"  ...

Today we remember the perseverance, passion, and dream of one our nation's greatest advocates for liberty and equality under the law: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  He fought tirelessly to end segregation and discrimination, and changed the course of history in the process. In his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jo ...

Following Obama's victory last week, Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy wrote that "it's certainly a sign that racism has greatly declined, and that African-Americans are more fully accepted in mainstream American society than ever before."  There is a certain kernel of truth in that statement.  Having a black American as the head of state is indi ...