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Justice Breyers dissenting opinion, on the other hand, rests on what in my respectful submission is a misuse and mistaken interpretation of our precedents. Justice Breyer nonetheless relies on the good intentions and motives of the school districts, stating that he has found no case that repudiated this constitutional asymmetry between that which seeks to exclude and that which seeks to include members of minority races. Post, at 29 (emphasis in original). One schoolGarfieldis more or less in the center of Seattle. Cf. Choice, therefore, is the predominant factor in these plans. I quote the Illinois Supreme Court at length to illustrate the prevailing legal assumption at the time Swann was decided. Similarly, the segregationists made repeated appeals to societal practice and expectation. The Constitution does not permit race-based government decisionmaking simply because a school district claims a remedial purpose and proceeds in good faith with arguably pure motives. [Footnote 11]. However closely related race-based assignments may be to achieving racial balance, that itself cannot be the goal, whether labeled racial diversity or anything else. He writes that Justice Breyer misused and misapplied previous Supreme Court precedents in this area and that he greatly exaggerates the consequences of the decision of this case. Held:The judgments are reversed, and the cases are remanded. See Brief for Petitioner at 45. 11-345 In the Supreme Court of the United States ABIGAIL NOEL FISHER, PETITIONER . Id., at 39a. Although the Constitution almost always forbids the former, it is significantly more lenient in respect to the latter. 4143 (Mar. Nor can I explain my disagreement with the Courts holding and the pluralitys opinion, without offering a detailed account of the arguments they propound and the consequences they risk. In so doing, the Illinois Supreme Court acted in explicit reliance on our decision in School Comm. The public school population had fallen from about 100,000 to less than 50,000. [Footnote 19] See ibid. No distinction was made between various categories of non-whites; Asian-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and African-Americans were all treated solely as "non-white" for purposes of the tiebreaker. 2 Id., at 151152; Hanawalt 3738; Seattle School Dist. When a court subjects governmental action to strict scrutiny, it cannot construe ambiguities in favor of the government. But that is not a meaningful legal distinction. . See App. As well, because the racial tiebreaker is only used when more students apply to a certain school than there are spots, schools such as Ranier and Clevelandwhich have only ten percent of white students and are not popular choices remain racially imbalanced. Brief for Respondent at 3334. Id., at 43. In 20002001, with the racial tiebreaker, it was 17.9 percent Asian-American, 13.3 percent African-American, 7 percent Latino, 58.4 percent Caucasian, and 3.4 percent Native-American. This is incorrect. Brief for Respondent at 3132. 1, 137 F.Supp.2d 1224 (W.D. Consequently, the present plans expand student choice; they limit the burdens (including busing) that earlier plans had imposed upon students and their families; and they use race-conscious criteria in limited and gradually diminishing ways. 3, p.17 (The Court is dealing with thousands of local school districts and schools. Strict scrutiny is not strict in theory, but fatal in fact. . The dissent does not face the complicated questions attending its proposed standard. In particular, they emphasize that the children on whose high school admissions the case was originally based have since graduated high school, while the children of the other involved parents are not yet at the high school age. 23 (OCR, Apr. The districts offer no evidence that the level of racial diversity necessary to achieve the asserted educational benefits happens to coincide with the racial demographics of the respective districts, or rather the districts white/nonwhite or black/other balance, since that is the only diversity addressed by the plans. The statute establishing MSAP permits granting federal grants to magnet programs that seek to decrease minority group isolation. 20 U.S.C. Diversity, depending on its meaning and definition, is a compelling educational goal a school district may pursue. 2, p. 59 ([I]t would be difficult indeed to find a case so favored by precedent as is the case for South Carolina here). . The plan also established Parent Assistance Centers to help parents and students navigate the school selection and assignment process. Politics 987, 991 (1976) (similar in Georgia); McDaniel v. Barresi, 402 U. S. 39, 40, n. 1 (1971) (Clarke County, Georgia). See, e.g., Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peńa, 515 U. S. 200, 243, 248, n.6 (1995) (Stevens, J., dissenting); Wygant v. Jackson Bd. No case of this Court has ever relied upon the de jure/de facto distinction in order to limit what a school district is voluntarily allowed to do. From Swann to Grutter, this Courts decisions have emphasized this distinction, recognizing that the fate of race relations in this country depends upon unity among our children, for unless our children begin to learn together, there is little hope that our people will ever learn to live together. Milliken, 418 U. S., at 783 (Marshall, J., dissenting). Jefferson County fails to make clear to this Courteven in the limited respects implicated by Joshuas initial assignment and transfer denialwhether in fact it relies on racial classifications in a manner narrowly tailored to the interest in question, rather than in the far-reaching, inconsistent, and adhoc manner that a less forgiving reading of the record would suggest. See Seattle School District, Middle School and High School 2006-2007 Enrollment Guide for Parents, at 40. 05-908, was filed by a group of parents who had formed a nonprofit corporation to. It is evident, however, that Justice Breyers brand of narrow tailoring is quite unlike anything found in our precedents. Most non-white families live south of downtown, where five high schoolsChief Sealth, Cleveland, Franklin, Garfield, and Rainier Beachare located. More recently, the school district sent a delegation of high school students to a White Privilege Conference. See Equity and Race Relations White Privilege Conference, https://www.seattleschools. See Tometz v. Board of Ed., Waukegan School Dist. 1. See Beard v. Banks, 548 U. S. ___, ___ (2006) (Thomas, J., concurring in judgment) (noting that two were killed and hundreds were injured in race rioting subsequent to this Courts decision in Johnson). To the contrary, there is every reason to believe that it represented part of an effort to implement the 1978 desegregation order. 1, 458 U. S. 457); see generally Siqueland 2324. In respect to elementary schools, the plan first drew a neighborhood line around each elementary school, and it then drew a second line around groups of elementary schools (called clusters). See Hallinan 741742. In order to create a numerical racial balance among its 10 public high schools, the Seattle School District assigned students among them. In doing so, the board created a new racial guideline, namely a floating range of 10% above and 10% below the countywide average for the different grade levels. The board simultaneously redrew district boundaries so that middle school students could attend the same school for three years and high school students for four years. United States v. Fordice, 505 U. S. 717, 745 (1992) (Thomas, J., concurring). 2002), but then withdrew its opinion, finding that the appeal turned on an unsettled question of state law which the state courts would best be able to answer in the first instance. Ed. 05908, at 103a. And we have understood that the Constitution permits local communities to adopt desegregation plans even where it does not require them to do so. Electoral district lines are facially race neutral so a more searching inquiry is necessary before strict scrutiny can be found applicable in redistricting cases than in cases of classifications based explicitly on race (quoting Adarand, 515 U. S., at 213)). Is racial diversity a compelling interest that can justify the use of race in selecting students for admission to public high schools? Compare Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537, 559 (1896) (Harlan, J., dissenting) (Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. See 539 U. S., at 320. But I am quite comfortable in the company I keep. The upshot is that these plans specific features(1) their limited and historically-diminishing use of race, (2) their strong reliance upon other non-race-conscious elements, (3) their history and the manner in which the districts developed and modified their approach, (4) the comparison with prior plans, and (5) the lack of reasonably evident alternativestogether show that the districts plans are narrowly tailored to achieve their compelling goals. 161, 170, 212 A. The second government interest we have recognized as compelling for purposes of strict scrutiny is the interest in diversity in higher education upheld in Grutter, 539 U. S., at 328. While the focus of our opinions is often on the benefits that minority schoolchildren receive from an integrated education, see, e.g., ante, at 15 (Thomas, J., concurring), children of all races benefit from integrated classrooms and playgrounds, see Wygant, 476 U. S., at 316 ([T]he fact that persons of different races do, indeed, have differently colored skin, may give rise to a belief that there is some significant difference between such persons. Jefferson County does not challenge our jurisdiction, Tr. By contrast, Croson notes that racial classifications are permitted only "as a last resort".[30]. ; race, for some students, is determinative standing alone. The Current Lawsuit, 2003 to the Present. In Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), relied on by the Court in Gratz, Justice Powell, in a plurality opinion, stated that preferring members of one group for no reasons other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake, and therefore unlawful. The history of each school system reveals highly segregated schools, followed by remedial plans that involved forced busing, followed by efforts to attract or retain students through the use of plans that abandoned busing and replaced it with greater student choice. See Croson, 488 U. S., at 501 (The history of racial classifications in this country suggests that blind judicial deference to legislative or executive pronouncements of necessity has no place in equal protection analysis); West Virginia Bd. The Supreme Court will now review that determination in light of its Equal Protection decisions in Grutter and Gratz and is asked to decide whether racial diversity in high schools is a compelling state interest. 2429, and at oral argument, counsel for Louisville disavowed any claim that Louisvilles argument depend[ed] in any way on the prior de jure segregation, Tr. past cases have est. See id., at 342; see also Croson, 488 U. S., at 498; Wygant, 476 U. S., at 275 (plurality opinion). There is a cruel irony in The Chief Justices reliance on our decision in Brown v. Board of Education, 349 U. S. 294 (1955). Each of these premises is, in my respectful view, incorrect. In doing so, a reviewing judge must be fully aware of the potential dangers and pitfalls that Justice Thomas and Justice Kennedy mention. Id., at 483487. See generally Washington v. Seattle School Dist. Upon Joshuas enrollment in middle school, he may again be subject to assignment based on his race. Adarand, 515 U. S., at 228229. Independent School Dist., 719 S.W. 2d 350, 352-353 (Ct. App. This is a decision that the Court and the Nation will come to regret. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the District had a compelling state interest in achieving the benefits of racial diversity and that its plan was narrowly tailored. In 1996, the school board adopted the present plan, which began in 1999. [28] He contrasted this circumstance to Grutter, where "the consideration of race was viewed as indispensable" in more than tripling minority representation at the law schoolfrom 4 to 14.5 percent. This litigation was commenced in July 2000, and the record in the District Court was closed before assignments for the 20012002 school year were made. That school was founded in 1990 as part of the school boards effort to increase academic achievement.[Footnote 12] See African American Academy History, online at http://www. 1117, 2528. ([A]ll governmental action based on racea group classification long recognized as in most circumstances irrelevant and therefore prohibited, Hirabayashi [v. United States, 320 U. S. 81, 100 (1943)]should be subjected to detailed judicial inquiry to ensure that the personal right to equal protection of the laws has not been infringed (first emphasis in original); Metro Broadcasting, supra, at 636 ([O]ur Constitution protects each citizen as an individual, not as a member of a group (Kennedy, J., dissenting)); Bakke, supra, at 289 (opinion of Powell, J.) First, the histories of Louisville and Seattle reveal complex circumstances and a long tradition of conscientious efforts by local school boards to resist racial segregation in public schools. See Church of the Lukumi v. Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520, 54647 (1993); Florida Star v. B.J.F. The following notice, published in a Louisville newspaper in 1976, gives a sense of how the districts race-based busing plan operated in practice: Louisville Courier Journal, June 18, 1976 (reproduced in J. Wilkinson, From Brown to Bakke: The Supreme Court and School Integration 19541978, p. 176 (1979)). 05915, at 4, and it fails to explain the discrepancy. in McFarland I, at 190 (Dec. 8, 2003) (Q. Likewise, a district may consider it a compelling interest to achieve a diverse student population. It again redrew school assignment boundaries. In that case, I stressed the importance of confining a remedy for past wrongdoing to the members of the injured class. Order No. From almost the beginning, the Supreme Court contended that under this article it was unconstitutional for federal courts to issue mere advisory opinions; rather, the federal courts jurisdiction is restricted to deciding actual cases and controversies. The group also asserted an interest in not being forced to compete in a race-based system that might prejudice its members children, an actionable form of injury under the Equal Protection Clause, see, e.g., Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Peńa, 515 U. S. 200, 211. There is reason to believe that those who drafted an Amendment with this basic purpose in mind would have understood the legal and practical difference between the use of race-conscious criteria in defiance of that purpose, namely to keep the races apart, and the use of race-conscious criteria to further that purpose, namely to bring the races together. 05915, at 46. See also Grutter, supra, at 326 ([G]overnmental action based on racea group classification long recognized as in most circumstances irrelevant and therefore prohibitedshould be subjected to detailed judicial inquiry (internal quotation marks and emphasis omitted)). Even if these measures were appropriate as remedies in the face of widespread resistance to Browns mandate, they are not forever insulated from constitutional scrutiny. 2. exemplifies the long-running disagreement over the meaning of racial discrimination under the Constitution. of Oral Arg. Times, June 11, 2006 (quoting David Armor as commenting [w]e did find the [racial] achievement gap changing significantly and acknowledging that he did find a modest association for math but not reading in terms of racial composition and achievement, but theres a big state variation (emphasis added)). But see ante, at 29. The Seattle school district classifies children as white or nonwhite; the Jefferson County school district as black or other. In Seattle, this racial classification is used to allocate slots in oversubscribed high schools. Post, at 28 (citing Slaughter-House Cases, 16 Wall. That is a gamble I am unwilling to take, and it is one the Constitution does not allow. Thus, the opinions reasoning is long. Under our Constitution the individual, child or adult, can find his own identity, can define her own persona, without state intervention that classifies on the basis of his race or the color of her skin. Governmental use of race-based criteria can arise in the context of, for example, census forms, research expenditures for diseases, assignments of police officers patrolling predominantly minority-race neighborhoods, efforts to desegregate racially segregated schools, policies that favor minorities when distributing goods or services in short supply, actions that create majority-minority electoral districts, peremptory strikes that remove potential jurors on the basis of race, and others. 05908, Both Brown V. Board of Education and parents involved in Community Schools v. Seattle presented their case on grounds of 'Equal Protection' laws of the 14th Amendment. [S]chool authorities, the Court said, have wide discretion in formulating school policy, and . 1 App. The plurality cites in support those who argued in Brown against segregation, and Justice Thomas likens the approach that I have taken to that of segregations defenders. The parties and their amici debate which side is more faithful to the heritage of Brown, but the position of the plaintiffs in Brown was spelled out in their brief and could not have been clearer: [T]he Fourteenth Amendment prevents states from according differential treatment to American children on the basis of their color or race. Brief for Appellants in Nos. Whether or not the Court chooses to afford similar deference to public secondary schools will shape the control school districts have over their own policies. Both school districts voluntarily used individualized racial classifications to achieve diversity and/or to avoid racial isolation through student assignment. Parents Involved VII, supra, at 1166. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. See id., at 1032 (discussing other successful black schools); Walker, Can Institutions Care? Neither of the programs before us today is compelled as a remedial measure, and no one makes such a claim. 6704 (WD Wash., 1969), pp. But under the Seattle plan, a school with 50 percent Asian-American students and 50 percent white students but no African-American, Native-American, or Latino students would qualify as balanced, while a school with 30 percent Asian-American, 25 percent African-American, 25 percent Latino, and 20 percent white students would not. 1 a decision affirming the goal of integrated education as a compelling interest but rejecting the means many school districts use to maintain some integration in a rapidly resegregating society. See ante, at 31-32, n.16. The plan provided for open high school enrollment. He contended that whatever trends toward classroom racial imbalance have obtained, they were not the result of state-sanctioned segregation as in the pre-Brown era. Similarly, the Federal courts which have considered the issue . The dissents characterization of Swann as recognizing that the Equal Protection Clause permits local school boards to use race-conscious criteria to achieve positive race-related goals isat besta dubious inference.

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