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In my last post, I discussed the controversy that the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan has created at the Supreme Court and the University of Texas. Though it has never been challenged directly, the Ten Percent Plan was the topic of an interesting debate between Justice Thomas and Justice Ginsburg. Justice Thomas said there was nothing discriminatory ...

The Daily Texan, the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, recently ran this op-ed by a UT law student advocating the repeal of the Texas Ten Percent Plan. The author called the Plan---which the University uses to admit around three-quarters of its freshman class---"racist" and "discriminatory." The Texas Legislature enacted th ...