A San Francisco disability discrimination case threatens to hobble law enforcement nationwide. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), passed by Congress in 1990, was the product of good intentions. Its proponents—President George H.W. Bush chief among them—wanted to eliminate arbitrary ba…
Month: May 2015
Overdue for Strict Scrutiny: Race Preferences and Cronyism at the University of Texas
Ironies abound in the long-running affirmative action case of Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which has come before the U.S. Supreme Court (again) following its 2013 remand to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit for reconsideration. Abigail Fisher’s cert petition is schedul…