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7 Sep 2012, 9:30 pm
We are grateful to the following contributors who will weigh in next week on the cases currently in the pipeline and how the Court should or will rule on the challenges to the VRA: Guy-Uriel Charles – Duke Law Adam Cox – NYU School of Law and Thomas Miles – University of Chicago Law School Luis Fuentes-Rohwer – Indiana Maurer School of Law Richard Hasen – UC Irvine School of Law and Election Law Blog Heather Gerken – Yale Law School Nathaniel Persily… [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 2:34 pm
” Likewise, see this comment from CNN Crossfire host Bob Beckel, questioning Abigail Thernstrom, during the California Prop. 209 debate: If merit — this things, merit, which is most grades and tests are what is used here, would you like to see these UCLA Law School 80 percent Asian? [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 9:08 pm
Math curriculum wars in Seattle school district head for court [Seattle Times] Stuart Taylor, Jr. reviews new Abigail Thernstrom book on the Voting Rights Act [New Republic] Gail Wilensky: Dems could’ve gotten GOP votes for health care reform if they’d compromised on medical liability [The Hill] Erin Brockovich swoops down on Florida cancer cluster [Fumento/CEI, more, also on Florida case] Barry Goldwater was right: right-leaning bloggers favor lifting military gay… [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 12:04 pm
This blog’s symposium on the Voting Rights Act continues with contributions from Joshua Thompson, Richard Pildes, and Abigail Thernstrom. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 9:22 am
Kirsanow, joined by vice chair Abigail Thernstrom and commissioner Todd Gaziano, criticized the EEOC’s guidance. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 2:22 pm
On Shelby County’s side are the predictable array of political scientists like Abigail Thernstrom, election policy hacks like Hans von Spakovsky, and Reagan-era war horses like John Eastman. [read post]
7 Dec 2009, 7:20 am
Letter: Abigail Thernstrom and Ashley L. [read post]
19 Mar 2014, 9:37 am
” Likewise, see this comment from CNN Crossfire liberal host Bob Beckel, questioning Abigail Thernstrom: If merit — this things, merit, which is most grades and tests are what is used here, would you like to see these UCLA Law School 80 percent Asian? [read post]
19 May 2015, 9:52 am
And here’s liberal CNN’s “Crossfire” co-host Bob Beckel, questioning Abigail Thernstrom (an opponent of race preferences in university admissions) on May 25, 1997: You just mentioned Asians — let’s assume for a moment — who are doing much better in their scoring than average than even whites are. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 6:34 am
Board of Education and subsequent litigation over black civil rights –Jack Greenberg, professor at Columbia Law School and former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Week 2 “NAMUDNO: Right Question, Wrong Case” –Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair of the U.S. [read post]
23 Oct 2009, 7:10 am
According to Abigail Thernstrom of the Civil Rights Commission: The small city had voted two-to-one to get rid of partisan labels on candidates running for local office, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) decided such a move was discriminatory. [read post]
2 Jul 2007, 3:58 pm
Dorf weighs in here on the opinions, the issues, and the impact of the ruling; Abigail Thernstrom of the Wall Street Journal has this commentary (subscription req'd) on the Seattle and Louisville school cases stating that "in a 5-4 opinion last Thursday, the court took a gratifying but sadly limited step in the right direction"; and guest blogger Deborah Hellman discusses Chief Justice Roberts's plurality opinion here at Balkinization.Over the weekend, the Wall… [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 9:24 am
By the way, the social-science evidence that there are compelling educational benefits that outweigh the costs is underwhelming, as discussed in the amicus briefs filed in Fisher by Abigail Thernstrom et al., Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Jr., Gail Heriot et al., the Pacific Legal Foundation et al., (including my organization), and a group of economics and statistics scholars. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 6:15 am
This blog featured post-argument commentary on the case from Roger Clegg, Ellen Katz, and Abigail Thernstrom, as well as an academic highlight by Amanda Frost that focuses on Akhil Amar’s recent essay online at the Harvard Law Review. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 8:26 am
In an article cited by Justice Clarence Thomas in Northwest Austin, Abigail Thernstrom reports on the explosion of the black middle class since 1965, the dramatic decline of white racism, and the emergence of the South as a preferred relocation destination for black Americans. [read post]
