The Michigan Mess: Supreme Court's Lawlessness Dates Back To Brown
By: Paul Craig Roberts|30 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Back . Brown: . Court's . Dates . Lawlessness . Mess: . Michigan . Supreme
Columnists have had a field day with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court decision [Grutter PDF]. In effect, O’Connor declared diversity to be a “compelling state interest” that trumps the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. Thomas Sowell described the five-member majority as “vacancies without resignations.” Shelby Steele declared the ruling “a victory for white guilt.” Michael Kinsley wrote…
Read more »Those Michigan Affirmative Action Decisions: Equal Protection For Whites Endangered
By: Paul Craig Roberts|24 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: craig roberts michigan
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the racial quota system used in the University of Michigan’s undergraduate admissions program (Gratz case) [PDF] and for the racial quota system used in the Law School’s admission program (Grutter case). [PDF] The difference is that “the procedures employed by the University of Michigan’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions do not provide for a…
Read more »In Memoriam Donald Regan
By: Paul Craig Roberts|13 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: Donald . Memoriam . Regan
Without Don Regan’s strength and loyalty, Ronald Reagan would have been a less successful president. After Don Regan was nominated as Treasury Secretary by President-elect Reagan, he asked me to stop by to see him. He would need a strong supply-side team, he said, if he was to succeed in his task of getting Reagan’s controversial new economic policy out…
Read more »Jobless Recovery Means Lurch To Left
By: Paul Craig Roberts|09 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: computer system design . federal reserve . jobless recovery . manufacturing jobs . offshore production . private sector employment . unemployment rate
The U.S. continues to lose jobs. Since President Bush has been in office, 2.5 million manufacturing jobs and nearly 600,000 service jobs have been lost for a total decline in private sector employment of 3.1 million. The unemployment rate has risen to 6.1 percent. If this is recovery, what is going on? Pundits call it “the jobless recovery.” The economy…
Read more »No Equal Protection for Whites?
By: Paul Craig Roberts|02 June, 2003|Categories: Articles & Columns|Tags: paulcraigroberts.org quotas
Sometime this month, perhaps before this column is published, the Supreme Court will rule on the University of Michigan’s racial quotas. Both in law school and undergraduate admissions, the university intentionally discriminates against white applicants in favor of “preferred minorities.” It is obvious that the university’s policy violates equality before the law and the Constitution’s equal protection clause. For three…
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