Chris Geidner: My goodness,” he said, telling Driver that he thought “the 14th Amendment protects all races,” and that the view that it protected “only the blacks” had been rejected. ...Scalia — who has made his opposition to all racial preferences clear and, as such, would not have any issue with a state banning such preferences — served as the key defender of the Michigan amendment, telling Rosenbaum that under the ACLU’s argument “the 14th Amendment is a racial classification.” The chief justice and Justice Samuel Alito expressed similar sentiments as Scalia throughout the arguments. “You could say that the whole point of something like the Equal Protection Clause is to take race off the table,” Roberts told Rosenbaum at one point. Justice Clarence Thomas, as usual, said nothing Tuesday, but has expressed opposition to racial preferences throughout his time on the court.
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 22:24:27 +0000
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