Justice Kennedy: The State Has a Compelling Interest to Discriminate

RUSH: If, as this ruling says, there is a compelling interesting in maintaining racial quotas because of the interest we have in obtaining "the educational benefits that flow from student body diversity," it means that if there are other constitutional rights in conflict, they will always be considered irrelevant or secondary to the compelling interest. The compelling interest permits, if you will, in this case, discrimination against others and their rights, because the state has a compelling i