Oral Arguments In FISHER: Justice Sotomayor Takes This Skinny White Girl's Complaint Very Personally
10/12/2012
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Here's the transcript of the oral arguments at the Supreme Court today in Abigail Fisher's lawsuit against the University of Texas's second system of racial preferences. 

Sonia Sotomayor's questioning of Fisher's attorney reminds me of Christopher Caldwell's classic line:

"One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong."

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