Considering Fairness in Affirmative Action in Schools

I would bet a lot of money that, NYT editorial nothwithstanding (see below), with Alito now on the Supreme Court, it will strike down these racial balancing programs.

But Judge Carlos Bea and three others dissented, arguing the district was "engaged in simple racial balancing."

"Up to now, the American 'melting pot' has been made up of people voluntarily coming to this country from different lands, putting aside their differences and embracing our common values," wrote Bea, who is Hispanic. "To date, it has not meant people are told whether they are white or non-white, and where to go to school based on their race."

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Considering Fairness in Affirmative Action in Schools

Roberts' Supreme Court Taking Up Controversial Racial Issue

By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/SupremeCourt/story?id=2693451&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Dec. 1, 2006 — - When Crystal Meredith moved to Louisville, Ky., and tried to enroll her 5-year-old son in kindergarten a couple blocks from their house, officials pointed her elsewhere, to a school that was a 90-minute bus ride away.

A school that was closer to their home, officials told her, couldn't accept another white student like Joshua that year.

Meredith, a single mother, wasn't looking for a fight. After driving Joshua across town to school every day, she decided she'd bypassed the closer school long enough.

She sued and is now at the center of the most significant legal battle over race to reach the Supreme Court in years.