Powerline by Paul Mirengoff 1/27/2022
After the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the Commonwealth of Virginia adopted a policy of “massive resistance” to school desegregation. The resistance was about finding ways to circumvent the Court’s ruling. It included a law forbidding any integrated schools from receiving state funds and authorizing the governor to close any such school. Virginia also adopted tuition grants to enable students to attend private, segregated schools.
Now, with the Supreme Court possibly on the verge of finding Harvard’s race-based admissions policy unlawful, Larry Tribe seems to be suggesting resistance to such a ruling. Tribe told the Harvard Crimson:
Universities as intelligent as Harvard will find ways of dealing with the decision without radically altering their composition. But they will have to be more subtle than they have been thus far. In other words, they will have to find new, less obvious ways to discriminate in favor of Blacks and Latinos and against Whites and Asian-Americans.
More:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/resisting-supreme-court-anti-discrimination-rulings-then-and-now.php
