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Article: WHITE HOUSE ASKS SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RULING.(NEWS)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- May 25, 1996
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Byline: Linda Greenhouse The New York Times
The Clinton administration, asserting that racial diversity in higher education is an important goal and that some form of affirmative action is necessary to accomplish it, asked the Supreme Court on Friday to overturn a federal appeals court's ruling that barred any consideration of race in admissions to the University of Texas Law School.
``The practical effect of the court of appeals's holding will be to return the most prestigious institutions within state university systems to their former `white' status,'' Solicitor General Drew S. Days III told the court in a brief submitted in support of an appeal ...