UPDATE

See the UPDATE to the post below on “Justice O’Connor’s ‘Pipe Dream.’”

ADDENDUM

Most of the discussion of Justice O’Connor’s hope (or was it a command?) in Grutter to phase out racial preferences in no more than 25 years has concerned the question of whether it was a hope or a command. But look, again, at my quote from her in the post below. Re-reading it now, I’m struck by something that I don’t think has been sufficiently emphasized in most commentary. I’m referring to this passage:

Enshrining a permanent justification for racial preferences would offend this fundamental equal protection principle. We see no reason to exempt race-conscious admissions programs from the requirement that all governmental use of race must have a logical end point.

If “all governmental use of race must have a logical end point,” shouldn’t government agencies using race now be required to state when they intend to stop, and for courts to force them to if they don’t?

UPDATE [20 Sept. 3:40PM]

Now see UPDATE II to that post below.

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