The question that always pops into my mind when I hear or read about this case is why is the challenge is coming from Texas. By that I mean, why is it necessary? I mean, yes, I’d love for the Sup Court to finally get it right and just strike down the use of racial preferences, but why are preferences even allowed in allegedly conservative Texas?
The GOP has controlled Texas for years now, and the legislature supposedly got more conservative in 2010. So why hasn’t the allegedly conservative Republican legislature and the allegedly conservative Rick Perry done anything about it? Surely they have some control over the public universities in the state don’t they? Why don’t they end the use of racial preferences?
Maybe I shouldn’t single out Texas, because I can’t recall ever hearing of a Republican controlled state govt stepping in to end preferences in their public institutions of higher learning. They’ve done nothing at the federal level either.
Why is the GOP so worthless on this issue?
Surely, you already know the answer to your question, don't you?
It's because Republicans are afraid. Afraid of the media. Afraid of being called the "R" word.
So, any time racial preferences are at issue, they're going to cower in the corner. <
Besides which UT is more or less a law unto itself. "The University" has been allowed to do pretty much what it wants to do. In fact, I'm not sure it even takes any state money -- having a vast endowment of oil royalties.
You clearly haven’t lived in Austin. Travis county, the seat of the state Capital is a hotbed of liberal activism. The UT campus is literally one-city block from the Capital building and it churns out thousands of liberals a year who want to live and work in Austin. Keep in mind that Texas has 1,024 counties (that’s not a typo - over 1,000), and every election you can easily spot Travis county when they show colorized maps to show which way the counties voted. Texas is conservative, but the legislature isn’t.