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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brown Jackson’s dissenting opinion is excellent! [/quote]

I didn’t find it particularly compelling and it’s disingenuous in places. The majority in Grutter was clearly troubled by and uneasy with state sanctioned  discrimination in the form of affirmative action. That’s where the famous “25-year” timeline comes from (and BK’s obsession with it is weird). Both KBJ and SM treat Grutter as full throated endorsement of the legality of affirmative action and I think it really undermines their dissent.

I appreciate KBJ’s summary of historic, systematic discrimination faced by Blacks and it is 100% accurate but … now what?  What she suggests but leaves unsaid because it would completely crush her position is that the desire to remedy past discrimination justifies present day discrimination. Perhaps people feel that way, but that’s a question for the political sphere and there simply isn’t the political support for that position and it would almost certainly require constitutional amendment. [/quote]

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