Affirmative Action Is Still Necessary

With an African-American president and an African-American attorney general, does America still need affirmative action? Can it honestly be said that blacks require a finger on the scale of the meritocracy?

Last week the U.S. filed a brief in support of the University of Texas in Fisher v. Texas, which will probably be the Supreme Court’s most important case next year. Abigail Fisher, white, wanted to go to college at the University of Texas at Austin, but didn’t get in. So she sued, charging the university with violating the various legislative and judicially imposed rules about minority admissions.