Roger Clegg

Model Racial Preferences Brief

August 5, 2010

The Pacific Legal Foundation‘s Sharon Browne and the Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg have created a model brief (31 pages PDF) for contractors and subcontractors who’ve been shut out of government contracts because of racial preferences. Preferences proponents typically cite sentiment over the law to justify government discrimination. Black American’s ancestors were slaves, and [...]

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Washington Times on Financial Regulation Bill

July 16, 2010

The Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg was quoted in a Washington Times editorial on racial preferences in the financial regulation bill: “Translated out of bureaucratic mumbo jumbo, this means federal hacks can pressure a vast array of private companies to make hiring decisions based on race. It is a backdoor way of instituting a [...]

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Browne and Clegg on Felon Voting

June 21, 2010

Although federal law allows states to bar felons from voting, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that Washington state is violating the Voting Rights Act by barring felons from voting. Sharon Browne, lead attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, and Roger Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center [...]

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Roger Clegg on Non-Preferred Minorities

June 11, 2010

From the Pope Center (emphasis added): “In November 2006 Jian Li filed a discrimination complaint against Princeton University. He graduated in the top 1 percent of his high-school class and received a perfect score of 2400 on the SAT, as well as perfect or near-perfect scores on the SAT subject-matter tests in math, physics, and chemistry. But [...]

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Roger Clegg on Law School Diversity

March 22, 2010

At Minding the Campus, Roger Clegg dissects “Why U.S. News and World Report Should Include a Diversity Index in its Ranking of Law Schools” and discusses several so-called benefits of diversity. One of the touted benefits of diversity is that it breaks down stereotypes. Let’s say students at a majority-white school with a race-neutral admissions [...]

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Roger Clegg on Disparate Impact in SOTU

February 4, 2010

Last month, the Department of Justice sued New Jersey and its Civil Service Commission for using an exam that “discriminates” against blacks and Hispanics, because these groups scored “statistically significantly lower” than whites. Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez (pictured) said, “This complaint should send a clear message to all public employers that employment practices with [...]

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UMass Med School Set-Asides for Cape Verdeans?

January 27, 2010

The University of Massachusetts will set aside 12 slots at its medical school for members of “underrepresented” groups, which include blacks, “Hispanics, certain Southeast Asians, and Cape Verdeans, Brazilians, and other Portuguese speakers.” (Source) Wow. I guess the school could cram a couple students from each group into those lower-standard slots. For people who don’t [...]

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Sandra Day O’Connor Revises Preferences Opinion

January 19, 2010

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Grutter v. Bollinger that the University of Michigan law school’s use of race in admissions was narrowly tailored to further a compelling interest in “obtaining the educational benefits that flow from” a skin deep-only diverse student body. Justice Sandra Day O’Conner, who voted with the majority, wrote [...]

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Racial Role Models in Science

January 14, 2010

“Science and engineering should look like the rest of the population,” said Daryl Chubin of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). And if the racial bean-counting doesn’t yield the desired results, “somebody needs to pull the plug and say this has not been an open and fair search.” The Center for Equal [...]

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Roger Clegg on Tenure Discrimination Allegations

December 17, 2009

The Center for Equal Opportunity‘s Roger Clegg writes about tenure discrimination allegations against Emerson College and DePaul University at Minding the Campus. Two blacks at Emerson and four women at DePaul claim they were refused tenure based on race and sex. “In neither case has direct evidence of discriminatory intent been alleged, such as racist [...]