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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone knows FCPS response to Roberts' request that was due on Wednesday?[/quote]

Link shared on page 34. As expected, the argument runs along the line of showing the applicant-vs-offered ratio, completely ignoring the fact that the new policy disqualifies previously eligible Asians from applying in the first place. [/quote]

There's a lot more to it than that. They are also point out that the UT plan that the Court has endorsed and the California constitutional amendment banning race based admissions are both unconstitutional under the District Court's standards [/quote]

Yea, but it's unconvincing. Hilton's opinion doesn't hinge only on disparate impact, but established racist intent based on board communications and publicly-available plan documentation. Hilton was very clear that disparate impact was only the "starting point". It does not stand alone. To characterize this as the only salient observation on Hilton's part is mischaracterizing his opinion. Even the board's own argument is self-contradictory on this point because if disparate impact alone cannot establish the unconstitutionality of their actions, then how is it meaningful to try and prove that there was no disparate impact? The answer is that they know it's only the starting point, and that bickering about the standard for establishing disparate impact serves to distract from the real issue of racist intent.

Personally, I don't believe any "diversity" goals that use race as a metric is constitutional. [/quote]

You've said this before.  Your opinion is as valid as anyone's but that's not the law.  Not as it is currently.[/quote]

I agree with this point. I'm hoping the current SCOTUS will change this once and for all. :)[/quote]

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