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<p>Don't get us wrong. We don't mean to suggest that conservatives qua conservatives have civil rights. If ''the Times'' had a policy of refusing to hire conservative columnists, we might criticize or mock the paper for it, but we would never argue that the law should compel it to treat right-leaning job applicants equally.</p> | <p>Don't get us wrong. We don't mean to suggest that conservatives qua conservatives have civil rights. If ''the Times'' had a policy of refusing to hire conservative columnists, we might criticize or mock the paper for it, but we would never argue that the law should compel it to treat right-leaning job applicants equally.</p> | ||
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<p>Yet Pollitt's complaint runs directly counter to the standard liberal argument for affirmative action. In his influential split-the-difference opinion in [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=438&invol=265 University of California v. Bakke] (1978), Justice Lewis Powell opined that racial preferences in college admissions could be justified in the interest of "the attainment of a diverse student body." In [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=438&invol=265 Grutter v. Bollinger] (2003), a 5-4 Supreme Court majority endorsed Powell's view.</p> | <p>Yet Pollitt's complaint runs directly counter to the standard liberal argument for affirmative action. In his influential split-the-difference opinion in [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=438&invol=265 University of California v. Bakke] (1978), Justice Lewis Powell opined that racial preferences in college admissions could be justified in the interest of "the attainment of a diverse student body." In [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=438&invol=265 Grutter v. Bollinger] (2003), a 5-4 Supreme Court majority endorsed Powell's view.</p> | ||
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