The big story today, of course, is the defeat of the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform bill, but perhaps even more important in the long term is today's SCOTUS ruling that race may not be used to achieve "diversity" in public schools. :
A bitterly divided U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday issued what is likely to be a landmark opinion -- ruling that race cannot be a factor in the assignment of children to public schools.
The court struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, concluding they relied on an unconstitutional use of racial criteria, in a sharply worded pair of cases reflecting the deep legal and social divide over the issue of race and education.A conservative majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts said other means besides race considerations should be used to achieve diversity in schools.
"The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race," Roberts wrote.
Read the full story at the above link. The key is Roberts' line above - Hear! Hear!
I find it amusing that Mears opens with the "bitterly divided" line. I wonder if he uses that description when a 5-4 decision goes the way he likes? Naturally, the use of racial quotas has "bitterly divided" the nation for some time - as Roberts correctly points out, they were used to discriminate against minorities for most of our history, but that doesn't make it right to discriminate "for" minorities (in fact, any benefits accruing to the minorities through these measures are highly debatable, except that it does keep the "race industry" flush).
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