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So you think those testifying before SCOTUS are willing to put their freedom on the line in order to protect a secret effort to reduce the number of Asians admitted, and that they believe all of their colleagues will back them up in lying to the highest court in the land, as will all of the hundreds of people who have retired from the Harvard or UNC admissions office or higher up administration? And the same, of course is true for the thousands of other admission offices that practice affirmative action, so we're talking tens to hundreds of thousands of admissions personnel all conspiring against Asian applicants. And all the courts that have let affirmative action stand in the past are in on it, too? That's another group of tens of thousands who are all working together. And none of them have the integrity or the fear of jail time that would lead them to tell the truth?
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People don't testify before the Supreme Court.[/quote]

Yes, you're right. Thank you. But they testify to lower courts with full knowledge that decisions made based upon what they say could end up being argued in front of the Supreme Court. Lying to a lower court is the same as lying to the whole judicial branch of the government effectively.

So I'll change my argument to ask if they really think all those tens of thousands of people would be willing to lie in court. It doesn't change the validity of the point being made.[/quote]

I do not know what the evidence considered in the lower courts was, but I can assure you that it was not tens of thousands of people testifying under oath.  I would guess it would be expert witnesses that are testifying about what the evidence (what the schools were required to produce through discovery or data collected by the plaintiff) means.  [/quote]

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