A blog website on Supreme Court news in the paper today is SCOTUSblog.com by someone named Tom Goldstein this in reference to this weeks pending rulings that are thought to be important. One was the affirmative action case out of Univ of Texas. Texas has a plan for entry into the main college that enrolls the top rankings from all high schools and because many of those schools are predominately black or hispanic the enrollment at the college allows for many minority candidates. An interesting plus of segregated secondary school education. The issue in Texas is the use of race as a qualification for the remainder of the enrollees; three quarters of the freshman class is already made up of top ranking high schoolers regardless of race. This case was brought by one Abigail Fisher who has since graduated from another university.
Another item of interest to me was the news of the flight of Edward Snowden. The Obama admin is trying to arrest him and bring him back to the states to stand trial and (spend the rest of his life in an "ass-pounding federal prison". What movie was that from anyway?). Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador are three LA countries willing to take Snowden. The news from The Record notes that Cuba has given assylum to others who we might want to prosecute. One being Philip Agee who in 1975 wrote about the misdeeds of the CIA in Latin America: the book was "Inside the Company: CIA Diary". (Q: is he still alive?)
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