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Other circuit courts whose opinions are not binding here have indeed addressed the issue, but are also in conflict. But William Brennan was a learned man who probably knew exactly what an allotrope is—in chemistry, one of the several forms of a single element, as charcoal and graphite and diamond are allotropes of carbon. To suggest that the diversity rationale, aimed at enriching learning, is an allotrope of the compensatory rationale, aimed at redressing injury, is an intellectual blunder Justice Brennan was too keen to have made.

In Hopwood v. University of Texas , a case very similar to Grutter , a three-judge panel of that court held emphatically that the diversity rationale has absolutely no support other than that of a single Supreme Court Justice, Lewis Powell; has never represented the view of a majority of the Court in Bakke or in any other case; and has no value as a rule of law.

When that opinion was appealed to the full Fifth Circuit it was again affirmed; subsequently the Supreme Court declined to review it. That is why these Michigan cases are so intriguing. Preferential admissions can survive only if the need for diversity will suffice to defend them, and how the district and circuit courts will come down on this matter must depend on how they read the holding of the Supreme Court in Bakke.

Judge Friedman, after meticulous consideration of the legal precedents, has come to the view most likely to prevail. When these cases reach the Supreme Court, however, what may be gleaned from Bakke may prove to be not so important after all. That Court, though always mindful of precedent, is not firmly bound by Bakke , however interpreted.

It may reverse Bakke , or amend it in whatever way the nine Justices think our civil-rights laws and the Constitution demand. Reliance upon the diversity rationale for racial preference faces still another hurdle. If we aim to give redress, what we do must compensate in appropriate form and degree for the injury suffered, and must compensate those persons who suffered that injury and not some other set of persons who may happen to share their skin color.

Similarly, when an instrument using suspect classifications is defended as essential for some state purpose, there must be a close fit between that response and the need to which it is a response. That suitability—of the device to the need it claims to answer—is what the universities cannot provide for diversity. But if the number cannot be known, it is plainly impossible to say that any given system closely meets the need. Again, if the alleged need is for diversity of many different kinds and not of race alone as Justice Powell said emphatically , admissions devices like those at Michigan that give automatic preference to three specific minorities cannot possibly be tailored to the claimed need.

So, even if diversity were found to have satisfied the first prong of the strict-scrutiny standard, it probably could never satisfy the second. Nor is that the last of the problems confronted by this alleged justification of racial preferences. Suppose that the compelling need for diversity really were good law, and might even protect the wholesale incorporation of racial preferences in the Michigan style.

Even so, all we would know is that diversity can serve as the needed compelling interest in some context; whether it does so serve would still remain to be shown. In the two Michigan cases, the university assumed the authority of the diversity rationale and then went on to compile what it took to be the evidence showing that the work of the university depends critically upon ethnic diversity.

As one might expect, Judge Duggan made much of this evidence. Obviously, it would not have to be considered by Judge Friedman or by anyone else who denies that diversity could serve as a compelling need in the first place.

But the same evidence has also been given very careful scrutiny by outside observers. Taken together, these two critiques of the empirical claims made by the University of Michigan are devastating. What they indicate is that even if the possible use of the diversity rationale could be established, its use will not succeed in the actual circumstances.

A brief look at what lies ahead: the two Michigan cases will very probably be consolidated into one by the Sixth Circuit court of appeals in Cincinnati, but are not likely to be argued until later in the autumn. A decision by a three-judge panel of that court will probably be issued in early Whatever the decision of the panel, it will almost certainly be appealed to the full circuit court; although such appeals are rarely granted, the process may consume many months.

And no matter what the final outcome in that process, an appeal by the losing side to the U.

Supreme Court will assuredly follow. That the Supreme Court will eventually take the case is very probable. For one thing, the Court sees itself as having the task of clarifying the law where decisions in the courts below it are in conflict. In this sphere, ever since Bakke , such conflicts have been many. Two opportunities to resolve these conflicts—a Ninth Circuit decision upholding preferences, and a Fifth Circuit decision condemning them—have been declined by the Court in recent months, probably because each had technical aspects that rendered it not wholly suitable for the purpose.

The Michigan cases, by contrast, provide an ideal vehicle for a restatement of the law. The conflict between Gratz and Grutter is fruitfully sharp, and the full record in the two cases provides a well-documented factual setting. The degree of preference given at Michigan, the ways it has been given, and the statistical outcomes in the admissions process are well established in both cases, especially that of the law school. The intent of the university to give racial preference is undisputed, and the university is ready to defend its practices openly.

The facts and the arguments are all on the table. Even if the decision of the Sixth Circuit were agreeable to the Supreme Court, the Justices are likely to want their imprimatur on the outcome. The issue is ripe for final resolution. Finally, we know that several members of the Court feel very strongly—it would not be an exaggeration to say passionately—that racial preferences violate the Constitution, and are offended by the widespread defiance of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of , which outlaws such preferences by institutions receiving federal money in the plainest language.

Modern equal protection has recognized only one [compelling state] interest: remedying the effects of [identified] racial discrimination. The interest in increasing the diversity of broadcast viewpoints is clearly not a compelling interest. It is simply too amorphous, too insubstantial, and too unrelated to any legitimate basis for employing racial classifications.

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Four votes are needed for the Supreme Court to accept any case. That there will be five votes to accept these Michigan cases seems very probable; I reckon they rest in palms already sweating in anticipation. And we may also find principled opposition to the diversity rationale for preferences among the other four Justices as well. For Justices Stephen Breyer and David Souter, the principle of equal treatment under the law carries awesome authority. The position of any one of these four cannot be confidently predicted.

I conclude on another personal note: every catalogue of the University of Michigan, on whose faculty I have served proudly for 46 years, carries a formal notice that the university. Although I have been openly critical of its racially distorted admissions policies, I am deeply devoted to the University of Michigan, and I look forward to the day when that formal statement can be published without embarrassment.

Legislators have feared to deal with this topic, but most would find the outright support of preferential systems to be politically damaging. As for the public, it has made its overwhelming opposition to such systems plain at every opportunity offered by referendum. Now the courts, confronting university ethnic preferences at last, may decide they can be tolerated no longer.

Let us pray that is so. An earlier case, DeFunis v. Odegaard , was ultimately held moot. If both are not accorded the same protection then it is not equal. But a district-court judge was not impressed, and found such a device unlawful. If admissions officers were empowered to give such group preferences, what group might next be helped?