What a tangled web the court weaves when first it practices to deceive itself about what it is doing to the equal protection guarantee. By George Will "In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race." -- Justice Harry Blackmun, 1978 "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race." -- Chief Justice John Roberts, 2007 Blackmun was concurring in the Bakke decision, which created the higher education "diversity" exception to the equal protection principle: Racial preferences in admissions to a public university do not violate the principle of equal protection of the law if they serve the supposedly compelling interest of...
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