ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN — The Supreme Court finally agreed this week to hear Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, two lawsuits challenging the use of race in the admissions policies of both the University of Michigan and its law school. The cases have been pegged as candidates for certiorari since they were filed in […]
Aaron Page
Aaron Marr Page is a freelance writer living in Washington, D.C.
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End It:
The Center for Equal Opportunity (CEO), an anti-affirmative action group run by former Reagan/Bush assistant attorney general Roger Clegg and labor secretary nominee-for-a-week Linda Chavez, has released yet another report on the “widespread” and “appalling” use of racial preferences in higher-education admissions. Previous reports have attacked admissions policies at numerous state universities and medical schools; […]
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Pickering and Choosing?
Everything might seem to be going according to plan for Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Their charge, promised when they assumed committee control last spring, was nothing less than to “save the federal judiciary” from a right-wing takeover (and hence preserve what People for the American Way president Ralph Neas has characterized as “seven […]
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Bellicosity Breakdown
Shortly after 9/11, a strange, frenzied linguistic debate seemed to leap, almost fully formed, into the public discourse. At issue was whether the terrorist attacks should be considered “criminal acts” or “acts of war.” Arrayed on one side were diplomatically cautious liberals and Europeans, who thought the “crime” nomenclature would keep moderate Muslim nations on […]
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You Don’t Know Dick:
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt didn’t mention the idea of rolling back last year’s slanted tax cuts in his follow-up to the president’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Not very surprising. Both of the members of his party’s leadership who have dared broach the issue thus far — Senator Edward Kennedy and Senate […]
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Softer on Terrorism?
Following September 11, many on the right made an instant pastime out of lambasting anyone who dared suggest that U.S. foreign policy might be partially responsible for the attacks — “blame America first” thinking, as they liked to call it. Recently, though, conservatives have discovered the joys of blaming one American in particular: Bill Clinton. […]
