“Supreme Court Revisits University of Texas Race-in-Admissions Case; History suggests the justices are like to pare back the use of affirmative action”: Jess Bravin and Douglas Belkin will have this article in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.
Joan Biskupic of Reuters reports that “U.S. top court revisits affirmative action in university admissions.”
And Mark Sherman of The Associated Press reports that “Justices look anew at affirmative action in Texas.”
“Supreme Court Justice Eakin has no plans to resign amid email controversy”: The Associated Press has this report.
“UT’s use of race in admissions at stake in Supreme Court arguments”: Ralph K.M. Haurwitz has this front page article in today’s edition of The Austin American-Statesman.
And in related coverage, Haurwitz also has an article headlined “Admissions, voting cases at Supreme Court engineered by UT alumnus.”
“A conservative quandary in affirmative action case Fisher vs. Texas”: Law professor Eric J. Segall has this op-ed in today’s edition of The Los Angeles Times.
And in today’s edition of The Washington Post, Sherrilyn Ifill has an op-ed titled “To fight racial isolation on campus, start with admissions.”
“The View Of The Nai Aupuni Election From Washington, D.C.” Robert H. Thomas has this post today at his inversecondemnation.com blog.
“The American Disconnection with the Supreme Court”: Emma Axelrod has this essay online at the Brown Political Review.
The second to last paragraph of the essay criticizes the U.S. Supreme Court for not making its opinions readily available online. Perhaps a bit more online sleuthing would have uncovered the following three pages on the Court’s website: here, here, and here.
Then again, the opinions of college students can often be unreliable at best (the second half of my 1984 review of the film “Police Academy” as published in The Columbia Spectator can be accessed here).
“Schumm’s father testified in landmark case on same-sex adoption; K-State professor Walter Schumm faced questions about links to leader of anti-gay research institute”: Celia Llopis-Jepsen has this front page article in today’s edition of The Topeka Capital-Journal.
“‘Showdown’: A look at Thurgood Marshall’s historic rise to the Supreme Court.” Pa. Superior Court Judge David Wecht (now a Pa. Supreme Court Justice-elect) has this review of Wil Haygood’s new book, “Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America” in today’s edition of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
“D.C. Notes: U.S. Supreme Court case pits Oklahoma AG against state’s Five Tribes.” Chris Casteel of The Oklahoman has this report.
“‘Force of nature,’ SC Supreme Court chief Jean Toal strode through history”: The State of Columbia, South Carolina has this report.
“Wolf calls for Eakin to resign”: In today’s edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Craig R. McCoy, Mark Fazlollah, and Angela Couloumbis have a front page article that begins, “Gov. Wolf called on Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin to resign Saturday, hours after The Inquirer reported that the justice was part of a ploy to install a new appointee to the judicial disciplinary tribunal expected to decide his fate in the pornographic email scandal.”
And Charles Thompson of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania reports that “Gov. Tom Wolf calls for Supreme Court Justice Eakin’s resignation after report highlights judicial discipline panel controversy.”
