Court upholds University of Texas affirmative action plan

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Source: Reuters

BY JONATHAN STEMPEL AND JON HERSKOVITZ
Tue Jul 15, 2014 7:37pm EDT

(Reuters) - A federal appeals court upheld the use of race by University of Texas at Austin in undergraduate admissions, a victory for affirmative action proponents, one year after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered closer scrutiny of the school's practices.

By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday said the state's flagship university had justified its limited use of race to achieve diversity, given a lack of workable alternatives.

A contrary ruling "would hobble the richness of the educational experience," Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote for the majority. "University education is more the shaping of lives than the filling of heads with facts."

Opponents pledged to appeal, which could give the Supreme Court a chance to again review the case in its next term.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/15/us-texas-affirmativeaction-idUSKBN0FK2HY20140715

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1. Patrick Higginbotham was nominated by REAGAN to that court,

after being nominated by Gerald Ford to the Northern Texas District Court.

A Reagan judge ruling FOR affirmative action???? wow

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2. "Affirmative Action" was a Nixon program

promulgated by Arthur Fletcher in the post-Johnson (Civil Rights Act) era, so "that generation" of appointees were upholding a GOP interpretation of it.