Supreme Court Sanity
Jun. 26th, 2003 12:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaIf they keep this up, they'll get themselves impeached.
Today's Lawrence decision was two days too early to be a perfect birthday gift for the Stonewall riots, but I think it will be accepted despite that.
The decision in the Michigan cases was less untarnished, but I was pleasantly surprised. I called my lawyer sister, who worked on the UofM undergraduate brief (Gratz v. Bollinger, 2003), and she was almost beside herself with joy over how things had turned out. Yes, she said, in a perfect world the justices would have recognized that the U of M undergraduate policy--using numerical rankings for a first sort of applications--is appropriate given the size of the pool of applicants. But given the current composition of the court, the decision in the U of Michigan Law School case (Grutter v. Bollinger 2003) was a ringing endorsement of affirmative action better than which they could not reasonably have hoped. I mentioned to her my fear that the split decision boiled down to "affirmative action is okay, but any system to actually implement it is not okay", but she thinks that's unreasonably pessimistic. I certainly hope she's right, and, after all, she's the lawyer.
Today's Lawrence decision was two days too early to be a perfect birthday gift for the Stonewall riots, but I think it will be accepted despite that.
The decision in the Michigan cases was less untarnished, but I was pleasantly surprised. I called my lawyer sister, who worked on the UofM undergraduate brief (Gratz v. Bollinger, 2003), and she was almost beside herself with joy over how things had turned out. Yes, she said, in a perfect world the justices would have recognized that the U of M undergraduate policy--using numerical rankings for a first sort of applications--is appropriate given the size of the pool of applicants. But given the current composition of the court, the decision in the U of Michigan Law School case (Grutter v. Bollinger 2003) was a ringing endorsement of affirmative action better than which they could not reasonably have hoped. I mentioned to her my fear that the split decision boiled down to "affirmative action is okay, but any system to actually implement it is not okay", but she thinks that's unreasonably pessimistic. I certainly hope she's right, and, after all, she's the lawyer.
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Date: 2003-06-28 09:58 pm (UTC)Your sister sounds nice -- I'll have to meet her some time.
Oh, BTW, I'm an Adobe employee now, and my next book appearance will be in October. (I just got my check, a whopping penny a word.) Hope things are working out well for you these days too -- sounded like it at last report...