Cato Institute, Amicus Curiae
David B. Rivkin, Jr., Counsel of Record
The Cato Institute is a public policy research foundation supporting limited government, individual liberty, and free markets. David B. Rivkin, Jr., is a partner with the law firm BakerHostetler, where he specializes in environmental, government policy, media, and appellate law. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Petitioner as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on September 10, 2015. The University of Texas’s race-conscious admissions system fails to satisfy narrow-tailoring requirements because it is arbitrary, opaque, and incapable of generating the evidence necessary to allow searching judicial review. Those specific deficiencies are not due to the university’s…
