Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1772
AUTHOR:
Charles Richey, Judge, US District Court, District of Columbia
QUOTATION:
The court must admit that it is not comfortable with racially based distinctions. [But] no decision of [the Supreme] Court has ever adopted the proposition that the Constitution must be colorblind.
ATTRIBUTION:
Rejecting Justice Department’s argument that a 1984 Supreme Court decision “precludes the use of any raceconscious affirmative action plan,” 1 Apr 85
