NAT HENTOFF ON SANDRA DAY:
NAT HENTOFF ON SANDRA DAY: I’m not sure why Nat Hentoff, a liberal who writes for the Village Voice, is against the Supreme Court’s Michigan Law School affirmative action decision. But he is, and backs up his view with compelling arguments.
In last week’s column, a must-read, he made a point that appears to have been completely missed in the news coverage of the case: the District Court made a factual finding that the law school’s program (which was upheld by the Court) was a quota system. Usually, the appellate courts defer to factual findings, and when they don’t, they usually at least explain why. O’Connor didn’t do that.
This week’s column by Hentoff points out that the decision will not help poor minorities at all, since the minorities attending the elite schools like Michigan Law School are almost always financially well off.
Read both. If you have time for one, read last week’s. It’s pretty amazing that nobody else seems to have picked up on this.
