Tag: Colorblind Constitution

Listening to History? Parents Involved, Brown, and the Colorblind Constitution

Christopher W. Schmidt - Chicago-Kent College of Law

“[W]hen it comes to using race to assign children to schools,” Chief Justice Roberts pronounced in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 (2007), “history will be heard.”  History indeed earned star billing in this controversial decision in which a five-Justice majority struck down race-based school… Read More »